Word: sousa
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...When Sousa wrote them he left no room for improvement...
Captain Glenn Miller has the right idea swinging those Sousa marches. The tunes are marvelous but the way Army bands have played them in the past has made them sound like an old-fashioned victrola which needed to be wound...
There is so much more I could and should have said against the "swinging" of legitimate and famous military marches. . . . No! Sousa marches do not need "streamlining"-but probably a few of the "bandmasters" who advocate the "swinging" of his music...
...good band under a capable bandmaster playing a Sousa march (as the composer wrote it) or any other standard march will thrill and inspire the marching soldiers. The sad thing is that most bands never rehearse marches at all or, if they do, not as they should...
...have just read with complete disgust . . . that Captain Glenn Miller has begun to "swing" the age-old, magnificent marches of John Philip Sousa (TIME, Sept...