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"The Stars and Stripes Forever" is considered Sousa's most famous composition. [3] A British journalist named Sousa "The March King", in comparison to "The Waltz King" — Johann Strauss II. [4] However, not all of Sousa's marches had the same level of public appeal. [2] Some of his early marches are lesser known and rarely performed. [2]
Performed by the United States Marine Band. file. help. " The Stars and Stripes Forever " is a patriotic American march written and composed by John Philip Sousa in 1896. By a 1987 act of the U.S. Congress, it is the official National March of the United States of America. [ 1]
John Philip Sousa. This is a list of compositions by John Philip Sousa. By genre. Sources: Concert pieces ... We March, We March to Victory (1914) (hymn) Boots (1916)
John Philip Sousa ( / ˈsuːzə, ˈsuːsə / SOO-zə, SOO-sə, [ 1][ 2] Portuguese: [ˈso (w)zɐ]; November 6, 1854 – March 6, 1932) was an American composer and conductor of the late Romantic era known primarily for American military marches. [ 3] He is known as "The March King" or the "American March King", to distinguish him from his ...
See media help. The " U.S. Field Artillery March " is a patriotic military march of the United States Army written in 1917 by John Philip Sousa after an earlier work by Edmund L. Gruber. The refrain is the " Caissons Go Rolling Along". This song inspired the official song of the U.S. Army, "The Army Goes Rolling Along".
Sousa retired from touring in 1931 and died a year later, on March 6, 1932. By that time, popular musical tastes had passed him by. Americans were into swing music now.
The Minnesota March. “The Minnesota March” is a march for wind band written by John Philip Sousa in 1927 for the University of Minnesota. Sousa received an informal request for the march from Minnesota football coach Clarence Spears, and agreed to a request from a committee of university officials in October 1926. [2]
One reviewer describes the march this way: "Hands Across the Sea opens with a jaunty, carefree theme, the wind sonorities light and generally in their middle and upper ranges. An equally attractive march appears midway through, its manner initially mellow and nonchalant. It gradually turns more animated and colorful, the piccolo dancing merrily ...