Word: marcheses
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1) Captain Glenn Miller's 418th Army Air Forces Band marches directly under my window twice every day. . . .
Captain Glenn Miller has the right idea swinging those Sousa marches. The tunes are marvelous but the way Army bands have played them in the past has made them sound like an old-fashioned victrola which needed to be wound up. . . .
There is so much more I could and should have said against the "swinging" of legitimate and famous military marches. . . . No! Sousa marches do not need "streamlining"-but probably a few of the "bandmasters" who advocate the "swinging" of his music do.
Any good band under a capable bandmaster playing a Sousa march (as the composer wrote it) or any other standard march will thrill and inspire the marching soldiers. The sad thing is that most bands never rehearse marches at all or, if they do, not as they should. . . .
Personally, I feel that the question of swinging military marches is a question for commanding officers to settle. Do they want their armies to march with military bearing, to fine inspiring rhythm-or do they prefer them to "jitterbug" their way along? . . .