Curtain Raiser- Beating The Retreat 2016
New Delhi, 28 January 2016
This year for the first time bands from the State Police and
Central Armed Police Force (CAPF) will perform at the ‘Beating the Retreat’
ceremony here tomorrow. The bands comprising Border Security Force (BSF),
Indo-Tibet Border Police (ITBP) and Delhi Police will play the tunes
‘Samvidhan’, ‘Abhinandan’ and ‘Carriappa’. The Tri-Services Military Band,
Indian classical instruments Sinfonietta and Jazz Symphonic Orchestra playing
the tune ‘Agyat Youvana’ and the Indian Classical Instruments Sinfonietta
playing the tune ‘Bharat Humko Jaan Se Pyara Hai’ will add flavour to the
ceremony. As many as 20 out of 26 performances have been composed by Indian
musicians. Other tunes are ‘Kadam Kadam Badhaye Ja’, ‘Senani’, ‘Lounden’s
Bonnie Woods and Braes’, ‘the High Road to Linton’, ‘Mili Juli’, ‘Grandeur’,
‘Redetzky’, ‘Pankhida’, ‘Galaxy Raiders’, ‘Inspirato’, ‘Air Born’, ‘Admirals
Ensignia-II’, ‘Jai Bharati’, ‘Sam Bahadur’, ‘Dhola Re Dhola’, ‘Taqat Watan Ki
Hamse Hai’, ‘Salam To The Soldiers’, ‘Marching Through Georgia’, ‘Drummers
Call’, ‘Abide With Me’ and lastly the ever-popular ‘Sare Jahan Se Acha’.
The ceremony at the Vijay Chowk on January 29th every year
marks the culmination of the four-day-long Republic Day celebrations. This
year, 15 Military Bands, 18 Pipes and Drums Bands from Regimental Centres and
Battalions are participating in Beating the Retreat ceremony. Besides one each
of Indian Navy and Indian Air Force band will also form part of the event.
The principal conductor of the Beating Retreat ceremony will
be Cdr VC D’Cruz while military bands conductor will be Subedar Major Ramesh
Singh and the Navy and Air Force bands commander will be Master Chief Petty
Officer (Musician-I) Ramesh Chand and Junior Warrant Officer Ashok Kumar
respectively. Buglers will perform under the leadership of Nb Sub Jagdish Giri
and pipes and drums bands will play under the instructions of Sub Maj EV
Vijayan.
‘Beating the Retreat’ has emerged as an event of national
pride when the Colours and Standards are paraded. The ceremony traces its
origins to the early 1950s when Major Roberts of the Indian Army indigenously
developed the unique ceremony of display by the massed bands. ‘Beating Retreat’
marks a centuries old military tradition, when the troops ceased fighting,
sheathed their arms and withdrew from the battlefield and returned to the camps
at sunset at the sounding of the Retreat. Colours and Standards are cased and
flags lowered. The ceremony creates a nostalgia for the times gone by.
Curtain Raiser- Beating The Retreat 2016
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