Newspapers, we all agree, are not what they were. The thing we don't agree on is why. Is it the internet? Or the decline in reading? Is it because reporters are biased? Or because reporters are so ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Nostalgia reigns on Sunday (Oct. 2) when the Purdue Symphonic Band will stage a band concert in the style of John Philip Sousa, the most influential bandleader of the early 20th ...

What did Americans do before they twerked, twisted, hully-gullied, moonwalked, strolled, shimmied, madisoned, cha-cha'd, charlestoned, lindy-hopped, nae-naed, or did it Gangnam Style? They marched.

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 ...

John Philip Sousa is widely recognized for his American marches. What is not widely known about the composer and conductor is he didn’t intend for his music to be marching tunes. “To him a march meant ...

BEREA, Ohio -- The sound of the brass and boom of the bass drum made it feel like an old-fashioned parade was coming across the north quad lawn at Baldwin Wallace University on June 21. A Sousa march ...

Arguably, the most popular early 20th-century visitor to Fort Worth (after Theodore Roosevelt) was bandleader John Philip Sousa. Both were headliners in their day. Roosevelt came to town twice (1905 ...

Beyond his music, John Philip Sousa remains a walking, baton-wielding lesson in history more than 85 years after his death. Consider the mouthpiece. Keith Brion did Friday, bestowing a gentle lesson ...

When New Holland Band director Kenneth Laudermilch takes the stage at Fulton Opera House this weekend, not only will he be conducting the music of John Philip Sousa, but he also will be holding the ...

The Millikin University Symphonic Band and conductor Gary Shaw are doing their part to keep the spirit, name and music of composer and bandleader John Philip Sousa alive. The band's "Stars and Stripes ...