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...innovative guitarists of our times and indeed one of the most amazing musicians alive today. Hyperbolic? Perhaps, but one reason why hyperbole exists is to describe the inexplicable. Indeed, it is quite difficult to characterize Frisell's music. Able to rework tunes from Dylan to Madonna to John Phillip Sousa as well as create a spatially expansive body of his own work, Frisell's music has been called the essence of "Americana." No doubt it is the sense of recognition, springing not so much from an elusive nostalgia as a surprisingly warm and engaging familiarity, that carries Frisell's music...
...dinner took place in a room decorated with signs reading "Greater Opportunity Party" and "Friends Help Friends Vote Conservative." The event convened with a group recital of the Pledge of Allegiance, followed by a meal consisting of salad, vegetables, steak and baked potatoes. A boom box played John Philip Sousa tunes as students talked about life as a conservative at Harvard...
...dinner took place in a room decorated with signs reading "Greater Opportunity Party" and "Friends Help Friends Vote Conservative." The event convened with a group recital of the pledge of allegiance, followed by a meal consisting of salad, vegetables, steak and baked potatoes. A boom box played John Philip Sousa tunes as students talked about life as a conservative at Harvard...
...Other stops ranged from the New Jersey laboratory where Thomas Edison came up with more than half of his 1,093 patented inventions, and where 5 million documents, including lab notes and letters, are rotting, to a Pittsfield theater that once saw performances by Sarah Bernhardt and John Philip Sousa but now houses a funky paint store...
...Marine Band's 17th director, John Philip Sousa, whose talent and flair put the band on the American map beginning in 1880 and also planted a band culture all across the country. Every town of any significance had to have a band with a bandstand in the park. The first order was patriotism. Sousa's march Stars and Stripes Forever became (and remains) the most recorded piece of music in history. But the bearded Sousa also infused the classics into every River City he hit in his wide tours with the Marines and later with his own band. Music from...