A note on the tune (see Deja News/uk.music.folk/"Gladiator" for the complete entry of mine on this: (I haven't checked to see if the links are still valid)

Mick

"It was written by a Czech born composer called Julius Ernst Wilhelm Fucik (1872-1916).

Fucik began his career as a military bandmaster in 1897 with the 86th infantry regimental band in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia. During this period he wrote Entry of the Gladiators. It was arranged (in 1910) by Canadian Louis-Phillipe Laurendeau. Also known as Thunder And Blazes, Fucik originally gave it the title "Grande Marche Chromatique" but was so fascinated by the culture of Roman Gladiators entering an amphitheatre that he changed the name.

(This information came from site: http://worldmilbands.ottawa.com/featured/fuzik.html in an entry written by Jack Kopstein, CWO (retired), where more information may be found. There is also a wav clip of the tune and a bit of the music for the Solo 1st Bb Cornet at: http://world.std.com/~tsh/circus.html/ )"