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Fanfare for a Dignified Occasion
by Arthur Bliss (1891–1975)
Sir Arthur Bliss wrote literally dozens of fanfares - most of them, not surprisingly, during the last 22 years of his life, when he was Master of the Queen’s Musick. He did, however, write an unlikely sounding Fanfare for a Political Address in 1921 and Fanfare for a Dignified Occasion followed, after Fanfare for Heroes and Dominion Greetings, 17 years later.
From Gerald Larner’s files: “Fanfares/n.rtf”