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 ...

When asked about his age, Ronald D. Anzalone told me he was 161 years old. He was speaking as John Philip Sousa, a composer long-faded from the public’s collective memory. Sousa’s music is everywhere ...

At 13, John Philip Sousa, like many boys of his day, wanted to run away and join the circus. Seeing how badly his son wanted to perform, his father, Antonio, a trombonist in the U.S. Marine Corps band ...

John Philip Sousa had been a conductor since 1878 and had been a musician since about 1861. The Famous Sousa Band, his own organization, has been in existence for nearly forty years and for the twenty ...

For many, summer celebrations would be nothing without hearing John Philip Sousa’s The Stars and Stripes Forever. The 1896 march conveys images of flags waving, parades, and the sense that everything ...

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. More than that, he nurtured and ...

If you knew Sousa -- Sousa's Washington (1854-1874) -- There's no business like show business (1874-1881) -- Semper fi (1881-1892) -- Sousa's peerless concert band ...

John Philip Sousa seemed to be in the best of spirits Saturday night, the Reading Eagle reported the following day, March 6, 1932. But at 12:30 a.m. that Sunday, the famous composer and bandleader ...

W.F.S. of Framingham called Mr. Know-It-All recently to inquire if Mr. K could find out if the Framingham Rotary Club's boys band ever performed under the baton of famed conductor and composer John ...

Clifton Webb and Ruth Hussey as Mr. and Mrs. Sousa standing with the High School Cadets Band during filming in 1951. Scott Schwartz Clifton Webb posing as John Philip Sousa for a promotional ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. As for Sousa IV, this isn’t his first crack at rallying behind a tea party hero. As ...