Word: sousa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vienna for good. Seventeen years later, in 1889, a new popular musical movement had begun to sweep Johann and his waltzes into history. It came from the U. S. and it was in 4/4, not ¾, time. The Waltz Kings were succeeded by a March King: John Philip Sousa...
...note from your article "Der Vashington Pust" in TIME, June 26, that those Shylocks, the music publishers, have been at it again with the victim this time no less a personage than the late John Philip Sousa...
...true that Mr. Sousa originally sold Washington Post to a Philadelphia pub:lisher for $35. Later Carl Fischer purchased that publisher's catalogue including the Sousa music. Thereafter (still during the term of the first copyright period) Carl Fischer made a new agreement with Mr. Sousa in accordance with which Mr. Sousa and his estate were to receive a royalty on every copy sold in every arrangement published...
...march was dedicated to an army post, or the Post Office department, or perhaps had something to do with a post horn. Actually, it was a theme song (before the days of theme songs), commissioned in 1889 by a newspaper, the twelve-year-old Washington Post.* Washington-born John Sousa, 34, son of a longtime member of the Marine Band, had become its leader. The heavy-bearded bandmaster dashed off the march, had the Band play it on the Smithsonian Institution grounds, where 25,000 people gathered for the presentation of prizes in a children's essay contest sponsored...
...Washington Post March, in two-step time, was taken up by U. S. dancing masters and swept the world. When Sousa's own band played in Germany, his audiences clamored for "Der Vashington Pust." The piece was played, as a "typical American" work, at the dedication of a German monument to Richard Wagner. European composers wrote pieces with titles like Vorwärts-A Washington Post, as if this were a special dance like the waltz or polka. An army officer told Sousa that in a Borneo jungle he met a boy with a violin, sawing out the familiar...