page_title: Christ's Hospital Band
section_title: Engagements
hierarchical_section_title: Christ's Hospital Band / Engagements
caption_attribution_description: The Christ's Hospital Band performing during the lunch interval at a Cricket match at Lord's Cricket Ground 2013.
context_page_description: Christ's Hospital School Band is the marching band of Christ's Hospital School. It is led and conducted by Terry Whittingham who is the former house master of Grecians East at the school and a previous bandmaster of the Queen's Own Highlanders. The band is a leading UK school band and performs a wide variety of engagements nationally and internationally.
context_section_description: The band primarily plays for the daily lunch parade, weather permitting, at the school where the whole school assembles by the Quadrangle at lunchtime and march into Dining Hall to the sound of the band. The band also plays for other events both nationally and internationally.
  Within the school the band is the central attraction for open days and it also plays a vital role in any Royal visit and for the annual speech day, when the Lord Mayor of the City of London and sheriffs visit the school. The band is also called upon to provide music for the Combined Cadet Force biennial inspection in the form of both background music during the inspection and marches during the march on and march pasts. At the end of each academic year, the band puts on a marching display (known as beating retreat) in the school's main quadrangle, consisting of intricate movements in quick and slow time as well as static pieces.
  Outside the school, the band performs in the annual Lord Mayor's Show in the City of London. The band also has a regular engagement each summer at Lord's Cricket Ground. The band played in the prestigious Rose Parade in California in 2002. The band led the procession at the Queen's 80th birthday in London on 21 April 2006 and has played at Twickenham Stadium on a number of occasions. Christ's Hospital Band has performed in Disneyland Paris, Horsham and in the streets of London on St Matthew's Day as Christ's Hospital is the only school that is permitted to march in the streets of London. In July 2014, the band toured Germany and Belgium where the band played, for a second time, under the Menin Gate in Ypres. On 12 June 2016, the Christ's Hospital Band performed at the Patron's Lunch, a celebration of the Queen’s lifetime dedicated to the patronage of more than 600 charities and organisations. The event also marked her 90th birthday.
caption: The Christ's Hospital Band performing during the lunch interval at Lord's during England vs New Zealand, 2013
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