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Military Band at the RR Station


For those of you interested in film music and British military band music, I've noticed that the march played at the station as the Viceroy arrives is not included on any of the "Passage" soundtracks. After doing a bit of research, I discovered that the military band in that scene is playing a selection called "Punjab March" by Charles Payne. An apt piece, although seldom found in the recorded anthologies of band march music. I'd lay odds that this was an actual Indian Army band doing the playing in that scene. The same band is in the "Meet the Natives" garden party at which time they're playing the music of Albert Ketélby who once beat out the more-famous Gustav Holst for a composition prize during their school days. Maurice Jarre wrote an excellent score here, but neither of these selections are his.

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