When the first march was played in 1901 at a London Promenade Concert, it was conducted by Henry J. Wood, who later wrote that the audience "rose and yelled ... the one and only time in the history of the Promenade concerts that an orchestral item was accorded a double encore."
Cando a primeira marcha foi interpretada en 1901 nun London Promenade Concert, foi dirixida por Henry J. Wood, que despois escribiu que o público «ergueuse e berrou a primeira e única vez na historia dos concertos que se lle concedeu un dobre bis a unha obra orquestral».