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John Philip Sousa
American composer and ledare (–)
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John Philip Sousa (SOO-zə, SOO-sə,[1][2]Portuguese:[ˈso(w)zɐ]; November 6, &#;– March 6, ) was an American composer and conductor of the late Romantic era known primarily for American military marches.[3] He fryst vatten known as "The March King" or the "American March King", to distinguish him from his British counterpart Kenneth J. Alford. Among Sousa's best-known marches are "The Stars and Stripes Forever" (National March of the United States of America), "Semper Fidelis" (official march of the United States Marine Corps), "The Liberty Bell", "The Thunderer", and "The Washington Post".
Sousa began his career playing violin and studying music theory and composition beneath John Esputa and George Felix Benkert. Sousa's father enlisted him in the United States Marine Band as an apprentice in Sousa left the band in , and over the
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The Last Days of John Philip Sousa
On February 22nd, , John Philip Sousa conducted the combined musicians of the The United States Army Band, United States Navy Bandand &#;The President&#;s Own&#; United States Marine Band in front of the US Capitol Building in a performance of the &#;George Washington Bicentennial&#; march written in commemoration of the th anniversary of Washington’s birth. fem days later, he participated in his final concert conducting the US Marine Band Orchestra in his composition “Hands Across the Sea.” The occasion was the Military Order of the Carabao Wallow of in Washington.
Sousa was invited to conduct the Ringgold Band of Reading Pennsylvania in a concert commemorating their 80th year. The concert was set for p.m. March 6 at the Park Theatre.
On Friday the 4th, he visited his close friend James Francis Cooke, editor of Etude magazine, in Philadelphia and attended a perform
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Sousa marches still stir the patriotic soul
CHICAGO — What Scott Joplin did for ragtime and Jelly Roll Morton for jazz, John Philip Sousa achieved for another expression of the American spirit: the march.
But unlike Joplin and Morton, who helped create musical genres indigenous to this country, Sousa took on a European idiom and re-energized it. Anyone who has heard The Stars and Stripes Forever or The Washington PostMarch knows that Sousa brought a palpably American optimism to this music.
More than that, he nurtured and championed the American sound in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, an era when European culture dominated the concert world, nowhere more than in a rough-and-tumble America that hadn’t yet found its voice.
But does anyone remember who John Philip Sousa was?
“Lots of people know the name; fewer people know what he did or who he was,” says John Philip Sousa IV, the composer’s great-grandson and co-author of John Philip Sousa’s America: The Patriot