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Imperioso - march - by George Allan

There's more to George Allan than just "Knight Templar" and "The Wizard". In the early part of the 20th Century, his two main publishers T A Haigh died and Fred Richardson retired. George, rather than finding a new publisher, set up as a music publisher in his own right and specialised in creating what he considered to be the very best contest winning brass marches. That a number of his contest marches including the two above still help bands to win march contests to this day suggests that he was on to something in that respect. This particular march, was first published from his home at 2 Pears Terrace, New Shildon (a small terraced house that still stands today), in 1912. It didn't prove to be quite as popular as "Knight Templar" and "The Wizard" though it's still a great march in its own right. It was composed and published at a very difficult time for George. 1911 had seen much industrial unrest in Shildon, as across the nation. A national rail strike spread to the railway wagon works where he was employed and the unruly workers of Shildon created so much unrest that the Enniskillen Fusiliers were brought into the town to keep the peace. George was unable to join his workmates in the protests, however, as at the family home in Pears Terrace, in the midst of all the shouting and unrest, his wife Elizabeth lay dying having slipped into a coma following a brain haemorrhage. The world around George was changing so much at this time. From his front window, he would be able to see new buildings appearing at the edge of his view across New Shildon Colliery to the station - among which was a new Railway Institute building for the organisation that he was very much a part of. It was started in 1911, but as a result of the unrest the North Eastern Railway chose not to complete and open it until 1913. The following year the whole world would be pulled into the bloodiest conflict the world had known up to that point and many of those angry men from the Shildon Works would be sent to foreign lands to fight for their country. Many, whose names are recorded on a memorial at the Institute, would not come back. Women from the neighbourhood, still excluded from many privileges such as the right to vote, stepped in to fill their shoes at the wagon works. The word "Imperioso" is Italian for imperious, meaning commanding or dominant, or it can mean intensely compelling. We're not sure which of these George had in mind. There are few clues as to why he chose this title either. Interestingly he wasn't the first to name a march "Imperioso" - this had been used previously by the composer G E Lyle for a very different piece.