- Duration: 4 minutes
- Chorus: SATB
- Instrumentation: Strings or Military Band
- Published by: Hawes Music
Patrick was delighted to be asked to write this work for the Band of the Household Division and the Royal Choral Society to celebrate HM The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.
All Princely Graces was premiered as part of the annual Military Musical Spectacular, a series of wonderful pageants of music and military precision drill. These concerts are performed on Horse Guards parade in front of the beautiful backdrop of St James’s Park each year.
The title and text for the work comes from Shakespeare’s Henry VIII and is a small section of a longer speech which HRH The Prince of Wales chose to be read at a previous anniversary of The Queen’s accession.
And hang their heads with sorrow. Good grows with her.
Words: from Henry VIII William Shakespeare (ca. 1564 – 1616)