Wallace Hartley Titanic Band Leader - His grave
This is a visit to Colne cemetery where Wallace was buried in May 1912 after being recovered from the Atlantic. He led the band of the Titanic to carry on playing to calm passengers and did so till a wave swept them all away.
The True Love Story of Titanic | Wallace Hartley & His Violin | The Heroes of Titanic's Band
The True Love Story of RMS Titanic shows us a mix of heroism, professionalism and love through Wallace Hartley and his violin.
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The music that starts now is called Nearer, My God, to Thee.
April 15th 1912, 02:20AM, a 56000 tonnes ship sank in the Atlantic Ocean after hitting an iceberg. It was her maiden voyage and touted as unsinkable by many. This ship is the RMS Titanic.
Many know her from James Cameron’s 1997 movie Titanic featuring Leonardo Di Caprio and Kate Winslet as Jack & Rose.
Jack & Rose were fictitious characters created for the movie, however, director James Cameron retained many real historical aspects in the movie.
Many would recognise this hymn from the movie as the last tune that the Titanic band played. No one knows for sure but it is widely accepted that it is. And it is this tune that immortalised the legendary band for their immerse bravery in the face of certain death.
The RMS Titanic was the largest and most luxurious passenger ship of her time. The second of 3 Olympic-class ships.
With some of the world’s richest people on board, no expenses was spared to make the stay on board the best it could be. It was said that some of the 3rd class facilities on Titanic was more luxurious than the 1st class facilities on some ships.
The iron-clad ship had 16 watertight compartments separated by 15 bulkheads that could seal off itself in times of emergency.
When lookout Frederick Fleet spotted the iceberg and said the three fatal words, “Iceberg, right ahead”. RMS Titanic was doomed.
RMS Titanic hit the iceberg and 5 out of the 16 watertight compartments was flooded. Despite its unsinkable reputation, RMS Titanic was only able to survive with a flooding of 4 compartments.
RMS Titanic set sail with more than 2200 on board and a lifeboat capacity of about half of that.
Chaos and confusion among the crew ensued as no official command to abandon ship was given, but it was clear the ship was sinking. Chaos with insufficient training, many of the lifeboats were launched less than half full.
As it became increasing apparent that RMS Titanic would sink, to calm people down, the Titanic band continue to play until the last minute, going down with the ship
The Titanic band was led by Bandmaster Wallace Hartley, a 33 year old Englishman from Lancashire. He was one of the three musician whose body was recovered from the sinking.
Wallace Hartley’s body was recovered 10 days after the sinking with a music case strapped to his body. While Jack and Rose is a fictitious story, the love story behind Wallace Hartley’s violin is true.
Wallace Hartley was to get married to Maria Robertson soon. Leading the band with his violin that was gifted to him by his fiancée during their engagement.
The violin had a fishplate attached to it, reading, “For Wallace On The Occasion of Our Engagement From Maria”, while bearing the initials of both Wallace Hartley and Maria Robertson.
A 3rd-class passenger said,” Many brave things were done that night, but none were more brave than those done by men playing minute after minute as the ship settled quietly lower and lower in the sea. The music they played served alike as their own immortal requiem and their right to be recalled on the scrolls of undying fame.”
Imagine, in a cold dark night in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, with a ship dipping below the cold sea, everyone is panicking around you running for their lives.
And you, knowing certain death, kept to your task, provide passengers a certain degree of calm. Playing on a violin, gifted to you by your love, as you face certain death.
There were many selfless heroes on RMS Titanic that night, keeping things running while passengers were flee. And the Titanic band was certainly one of them.
Wallace Hartley's violin was recovered together with his body and subsequently returned to his fiancée.
Maria Robinson kept the broken violin until her death in 1939. After which it was passed onto Bridlington Salvation Army. In 2013, the current owner discovered the violin and it was auctioned for £1.1 million.
Wallace Hartley was last seen with his band mates standing on the boat deck, near the entrance of the grand staircase holding onto the railing.
As the ship went down, Hartley exclaimed, “Gentlemen, I bid you farewell!”
Nearer to God, My Thee.
Current picture of Wallace Hartley's violin
The 3rd class passenger that made the comment about the Titanic band is unknown, the image shown is a 3rd class passenger of Titanic and his family.
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Wallace Henry Hartley (2 June 1878 – 15 April 1912) was an English violinist and bandleader on the RMS Titanic on its maiden voyage. He became famous for leading the eight member band as the ship sank on 15 April 1912. He died in the sinking.
After the Titanic hit an iceberg and began to sink, Hartley and his fellow band members started playing music to help keep the passengers calm as the crew loaded the lifeboats. Many of the survivors said that he and the band continued to play until the very end. None of the band members survived the sinking, and the story of them playing to the end became a popular legend. One survivor who clambered aboard 'Collapsible A' claimed to have seen Hartley and his band standing on the boat deck, near the entrance to the grand staircase, near the base of the second funnel. He went on to say that he saw three of them washed off while the other five held on to the railing on top the Grand Staircase's deckhouse, only to be dragged down with the bow, as Hartley exclaimed, Gentlemen, I bid you farewell! A newspaper at the time reported the part played by the orchestra on board the Titanic in her last dreadful moments will rank among the noblest in the annals of heroism at sea.
Though the final song played by the band is unknown, Nearer, My God, to Thee has gained popular acceptance. Former bandmates claimed that Hartley had said he would play either Nearer, My God, to Thee or O God, Our Help in Ages Past if he were ever on a sinking ship, but Walter Lord's book A Night to Remember (1955) popularised wireless officer Harold Bride's account of hearing the song Autumn. If it were Nearer, My God, to Thee, it is uncertain which version Hartley used. His father used the Propior Deo version, by Arthur Sullivan, at church, and his family were certain that he would have used that version,[4] It is this tune's opening notes that appear on Hartley's memorial[5] and that were played at his funeral.[4]
After the sinking Edit
Hartley's body was recovered by the Mackay–Bennett almost two weeks after the sinking. Several press reports confirmed that Wallace was found fully dressed with his music case strapped to his body.[6]
He was transferred to the Arabic and returned to England. Hartley's father Albion met the ship at Liverpool and brought his son's body back to his home town of Colne, Lancashire. The funeral took place on 18 May 1912. One thousand people attended Hartley's funeral, while an estimated 30,000 - 40,000 lined the route of his funeral procession.[3]
Hartley is buried in the Keighley Road cemetery, Colne, where a 10 feet (3.0 m) high headstone, containing a carved violin at its base, was erected in his honour.
A memorial to Hartley, topped by his bust, was erected in 1915 outside what was then the town library. The memorial is inscribed: Wallace Hartley
Bandmaster of the RMS Titanic who perished in the foundering of that vessel, April 15th 1912. Erected by voluntary contributions to commemorate the heroism of a native of this town.
This was later moved slightly to make way for the World War One memorial. Hartley's large Victorian terraced house in West Park Street, Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, bears a blue plaque to remind passers-by that this was the bandleader's home.[3]
In 2001, Hartley's name was still being used when naming new streets and housing in the town of Colne. In 2008, the pub chain J D Wetherspoon named a newly opened pub, (the building having been the long-standing King's Head Hotel up until the mid-1990s),[7] in Colne after the bandleader.[8]
Wallace Hartley Original song by Eighthavenue
You couldn't make up a story this heroic, selfless, dignified, if you tried. Wallace Hartley was the band leader of the RMS Titanic. His story and the portrayal in the movie puts a lump in my throat every time I see it or read about it. Imagine knowing your eminent death and you have enough caring in your sole to try and comfort others. Then imagine his body lost for two weeks at sea and they find him still with his fragile violin. Then that violin after being returned to his fiancé is lost only to be found in the attic of an English home in 2013. Said to be the single most valuable Titanic artifact ever found. But it's more than that to me. You cant place monetary value on something with this much history, bravery, compassion, and love attached to it. Below is some Wikipedia info on the violin:
In March 2013, after two years of in-depth trace analysis by The Forensic Science Service on behalf of auctioneers Henry Aldridge and Son, it was announced that a violin found in a British man's attic inside a leather case with the initials W. H. H. was the instrument used by Hartley, who according to lore played, Nearer My God to Thee during the ship's last moments.[6] The identification was helped by an engraving on the violin which his fiancee (Maria Robinson) had placed on the instrument in 1910 which read: 'For Wallace on the occasion of our engagement from Maria.'[7] Further tests by a silver expert from the Gemological Association of Great Britain confirmed that the plate on the base of the violin was original and that the metal engraving done on behalf of Maria Robinson was contemporary with those made in 1910.[8] A CT scan enabled experts to view 3D images of the inside of the violin. The fine detail of the scan meant experts could examine the construction, interior and the glue holding the instrument together showing signs of possible restoration. While researching the origins of the violin, the auctioneers Henry Aldridge and Son and Christian Tennyson-Ekeberg, biographer of Wallace Hartley and author of Nearer Our God to Thee discovered the transcript of a telegram sent to the Provincial Secretary of Nova Scotia, Canada, dated July 19, 1912 in the diary of Hartley's grieving fiance, Ms. Robinson, in which she stated:
I would be most grateful if you could convey my heartfelt thanks to all who have made possible the return of my late fiance's violin.[9]
After Maria Robinson's death in 1939, her sister gave the violin to the Bridlington Salvation Army and told its leader, a Major Renwick, about the instrument's association with the Titanic.[10] The violin was later passed on to a violin teacher who gave it to the current owner's mother. It's been in the same family for over 70 years, Henry Aldridge and Sons state.[11] Craig Sopin, the owner of one of the world's largest collections of Titanic memorabilia, a leading Titanic expert, and a general skeptic of Titanic claims believes the violin is Hartley's violin and not a fraud
Wallace Henry Hartley - Lars Anders Johansson
Wallace Henry Hartley
Det sägs att orkestern spelade
så länge det var möjligt att stå
på akterdäcket på Titanic
innan hon försvann i det blå
det sägs att Benjamin Guggenheim bytte
om till sin bästa skrud
För han ville vara klädd som en gentleman
då han tog havet till brud
Och det sägs att John Jacob Astor
beredde plats åt sin hustru Madeleine
i livbåten och tog ett ömt farväl
innan han sjönk som en sten
När den sista livbåten firats
ned, klockan noll två noll fem
fanns ett och ett halvt tusende kvar ombord
och djupet väntade dem
Och Wallace Henry Hartley
han strök sin violin
medan fören sjönk i havet och vattnet strömmade in
Wallace Henry Hartley
medan de beredde sig
på undergången spelade han Närmare, Gud till dig
Närmare, Gud till dig
Det sägs att Ida Strauss, sedan hon tagit
ett tårfyllt farväl av sin man
och satt sig i livbåten ändrade sig
och valde att dö, liksom han
I rökrummet satt Thomas Andrews
han valde likt dem att stanna
och medan hans osänkbara skepp sjönk
tände han sig en Havanna
Och Wallace Henry Hartley...
Det sägs att orkestern spelade
så länge det var möjligt att stå
även efter att lamporna slocknat
Sjutton minuter över två
strax hördes ett väldigt muller
när fartyget bröts itu
mellan tredje och fjärde skorstenen
hon sjunker, hon sjunker nu!
Och Wallace Henry Hartley...
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Titanic - Nearer My God To Thee (Full Version)
Please enjoy this full version. This is the song the band played before the Titanic sank.
Sometime around 2.10 a.m. as the Titanic began settling more quickly into the icy North Altantic, the sounds of ragtime, familiar dance tunes and popular waltzes that had floated reassuringly across her decks suddenly stopped as Bandmaster Wallace Hartley tapped his bow against his violin. Hartley and his musicians, all wearing their lifebelts now, were standing back at the base of the second funnel, on the roof of the First Class Lounge, where they had been playing for the better part of an hour. There were a few moments of silence, then the solemn strains of the hymn Nearer My God to Thee began drifting across the water. It was with a perhaps unintended irony that Hartley chose a hymn that pleaded for the mercy of the Almighty, as the ultimate material conceit of the Edwardian Age, the ship that God Himself couldn't sink, foundered beneath his feet. As the band played, the slant of the deck grew steeper, while from within the hull came a rapidly increasing number of thuds, bangs and crashes as interior furnishings broke loose, walls and partitions collapsed--the Titanic was only moments from breaking apart.
Adapted from rmstitanicremembered.com
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AND HE AND HIS BAND PLAYED ON.....Till The Bitter End-----Violine authenticated as the violin played by the bandleader as the Titanic sank.
One of the most memorable scenes from the 1997 Leonardo DiCaprio-Kate Winslet blockbuster Titanic was when 'the band played on' as the ship sank into the frigid waters.
Survivors of the Titanic tragedy spoke of the band, led by Wallace Hartley, playing on deck of the shop while passengers scrambled into lifeboats as the ship sank.
The violin that Hartley played as the tragedy unfolded has been found and authenticated said British auction house Henry Aldridge & Son on Friday.
According to auctioneers, the Titanic violin was brought to them in 2006 and they have spent the last seven years and thousands of dollars proving that it is, in fact, the very same violin owned by Hartley and played as the Titanic sank into the cold waters of the Atlantic.
Wallace Henry Hartley naufragé du Titanic [Documentaire]
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Following a comment by Mr.D.Barch regarding the line They put the lifeboats out on the raging stormy seas in the song 'Oh they built the ship Titanic' I decided to re-record the song with a new line adding 'Clear and Glassy seas' There has also been a dispute about the playing of 'Nearer My God To Thee' which is legendary without any real proof, although it would appear a Hymn was played which was commensurate with Wallace Hartley's (The bandleaders) background. The USA and English versions of that Hymn are quite different and yet it was reported by survivors from both sides of the Atlantic which throws questions about what was actually played. In this revised version I have just put a Hymn was played, led by Wallace Hartley. I have decided to leave the original version and Lyric version on youtube, although I do agree with hindsight that it was a bad line and thank Mr.D.Barch for pointing it out and hope the new version is acceptable to purists.In the final analysis, surely fact is more important and records do suggest it was not a raging sea.This recording is completely new as opposed to dubbed lyrics and the slide show is also all new. Hope you like it and thanks for watching.
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