Fittingly, John Philip ... that Sousa wrote his first composition, “Moonlight on the Potomac Waltzes”. Discharged from the Marines in 1875, the 21-year-old Sousa began performing on violin ...

Wednesday is the birthday of John ... in Sousa’s house and play in the composer’s band, but he also entered musical life similar to the way that Sousa did. Sousa started playing the violin ...

At 13, John Philip Sousa, like many boys of his ... convinced his commander to give the boy a place. Sousa had studied voice, violin, piano, flute, cornet, baritone, trombone and alto horn from ...

For many, summer celebrations would be nothing without hearing John Philip Sousa’s The Stars and Stripes ... He studied harmony, composition, and violin as the sounds of military bands and ...

To John Philip Sousa ... to our country,” Sousa IV said. Born in Washington, D.C., in 1854 to immigrant parents, Sousa began studying music, specifically the violin, at a young age.

In order to help American customers feel more comfortable with the idea of playing back sound, the Columbia Phonograph Company commissioned a recording of marching music by John Philip Sousa's U.S ...

John Philip Sousa had been a conductor since 1878 and had been a musician ... which is said to be the largest in his field in the world. That same year he became a violin soloist, and two years later ...

Sousa started his music education, playing the violin, as a pupil of John Esputa ... They had three children: John Philip Sousa, Jr (April 1, 1881 - May 18, 1937), Jane Priscilla (August 7 ...

To most people the name John Phillip Sousa is synonymous with patriotism. For over 100 years orchestras and bands around the world have been playing his songs nonstop. He was the most famous band ...

When the Marines aren't playing for the President ... Foley leads the Marine Band in the overture to John Philip Sousa's "The Charlatan." ...