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...other casual listeners. Military bands include some of the finest professional musicians in the world. As a music educator, I look to these exemplary performing ensembles as a model both aesthetic and professional for my students. The days are long past when the bands played only John Philip Sousa marches as troops passed by. Today's service bands enrich and eduate thousands upon thousands of listeners in every conceivable venue with a diverse repertoire. The arts are critical to the lives of all of us. Your thoughtless article does little to shed an informed light on the subject...
That sort of diversity has won the band critical plaudits over the years. In the 1950s, Bill Cunningham of the Boston Herald wrote: "The immortal Sousa himself would be proud of this cultured collection of blowers and beaters...
...friend of my father's," Sousa said. "I've known him for 20 years, in the Senate and in local politics...
Cambridge resident Lawrence J. Sousa, for example, said he voted for Bachrach because of family cannections...
...into choreography? "Nobody else would tolerate me so I had to make up my own dances," she explains. And so the camera catches her alone in a studio, bulky in practice clothes and noshing on a carrot, as she starts designing some steps to a Sousa march. Delightful...