Word: sousa
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...band concert. Stores stayed open, and farmers finished their chores early to drive to town. In Newton's Military Park, the municipal bandsmen sat solemn and proud in high-buttoned navy-blue tunics, and filled the summer night with sound. The music may not have satisfied John Philip Sousa, but it was loud enough to compete with the moaning of the evening train. Always, it attracted more than a thousand spectators...
Noting that the few were giving way to the many, Incumbent Impresario Frank Gravatt gambled $80,000, brought in John Philip Sousa-and the monkey wrapped its tail around the flagpole...
...Have you plenty of cigars, Jim?" asked Rear Admiral Kenmore McManes, commandant of the Sixth Naval District. Replied Commander James B. Osborn, between puffs on his stogie: "I've got 15 boxes. Admiral.'' Moments later, as a Navy band whomped up a rousing Sousa march on a closely guarded pier at the Charleston (S.C.) Navy Yard dock. Osborn, 42, stepped aboard the nuclear Polaris submarine George Washington, in whose vast holds huge quantities of provisions-from missile-shaped cigars to cigar-shaped missiles-had been stored. Then Skipper Osborn bellowed a time-honored order: "Cast...
Brass and Percussion (Morton Gould and his Symphonic Band; Victor). Marches by Sousa, Goldman, E. E. Bagley and Conductor Gould pit piccolo against bassoon, trumpet against drum, with the listener caught in between, as if trapped in a Fourth of July parade...
...Harvard Summer Band will hold the first of two Pops Concerts tomorrow at 7:15 p.m. Music, which will originate from the steps of Widener, will include selections from "The King and I," "My Fair Lady," and Sousa marches: and the first three movements of "Suite of Old American Dances" and "The Bugler's Holiday...