As one of America’s most famous and prolific composers, John Philip Sousa wrote 135 marches and dozens of other works, including operettas, songs and suites. Some of his early performances with ...

John Philip Sousa’s “The Stars and Stripes Forever” will be played a lot over the next three days. It’s America’s national march, as voted by Congress in 1987.

Who Was John Philip Sousa? ... For over 100 years orchestras and bands around the world have been playing his songs nonstop. ... On top of that he was the superb composer of marches, ...

Sousa around 1915, about a decade after he first decried "mechanical music." Library of Congress. John “The March King” Philip Sousa knew a thing or two about popular music.

John Philip Sousa had been a conductor since 1878 and had been a musician since ... Known as the “March King," the composer and conductor of brassy, dramatic patriotic songs in the 1800s also laid the ...

An earlier version of this story incorrectly reported that the Marine Band Birthday Concert is Sunday at 10 a.m. The concert is Saturday, Nov. 9, at 10 a.m. at the Marine Corps War Memorial in ...

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 helpe… ...

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To John Philip Sousa IV, he’s “great-grandfather.” Although the legendary bandmaster’s name ends with him, Sousa IV, 69, is working to ensure his great-grandfather’s legacy isn’t lost ...