Pomp and Circumstance Marches 1901, with Alfred Rodewald conducting the Liverpool Orchestral Society. Elgar and his wife attended, and it was a "frantic" success. Both marches were played two days later at a London Promenade Concert (which the Elgars unintentionally missed) in the Queen's Hall London, conducted by Henry Wood, with March No. 1 played second. Wood remembered 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." The "Trio" contains the tune known as "Land of Hope and Glory". In 1902 the tune was re-used, in
Circumstance (short story) Circumstance (short story) "Circumstance" is an allegorical short story written by American author Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford. It was published serially in "The Atlantic Monthly" in 1860. The story takes place in the woods of Maine following an unnamed protagonist who travels to return to home after caring for a sick neighbor. She ventures into the woods where she comes in contact with the Indian Devil who assaults her throughout the story but in this life/death situation she realizes her reality and religion and comes to terms with her life, sexuality and fears. By the end of the story, her