Word: sousa
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...popular historians like McCullough, Ambrose, Barbara Tuchman and Doris Kearns Goodwin. He wants viewers to identify with their ancestors, allowing them to ponder the prevalence of moral ambiguity, human willpower and plain dumb luck in shaping the past. And he wants to be transported back in time, with a Sousa band banging the drum loudly...
Most people have heard, in some form or another, the famous “Stars and Stripes Forever” march by John Philip Sousa, with its crisp trumpet lines, sonorous bass undertones, and delicate flute ornamentation. The piece is rightly a classic of 20th-century wind band literature. Yet despite its popularity, mere mention of the word “wind ensemble” often elicits either blank indifference or vague recollection of a long-dropped middle- school activity. This is unfortunate—for though it tends to be overlooked, the wind ensemble offers an artistic experience...
...meeting ended with the blaring of a recording of Sousa's "Stars and Stripes Forever." Obama stepped off the stage and worked the crowd, shaking hands and smiling as people snapped photos with cameras and cell phones. The First Family then boarded the green Marine One helicopter and headed southwest 60 miles, into the mountains, to land at the Big Sky Resort, the luxury ski and vacation-home development founded by a native son, broadcaster Chet Huntley, nearly 40 years ago. From Big Sky, the First Family will visit Yellowstone National Park before flying off on Air Force One Saturday...
...considerably less sanguine, however, about the incubator in which Stone Barns hatches its chicks. In Extremadura, Sousa's geese build nests and hatch their own eggs; incubators, in his opinion, not only result in weaker birds, but also make it impossible to "convince" the geese that they're wild. Presented with a still wet Stone Barns chick, pulled from its heating tray, he shakes his head sadly. "If you wanted to raise a baby Rambo, would you want him living rough out in the country or coddled in an intensive-care unit...
Does that mean Barber will have to go another year without his own foie on the menu? No one will know for sure until the birds are slaughtered in late fall. But Sousa remains hopeful. "Eventually," he says, "I know they'll get it right...