Word: sousas
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...ideal pops concert is played in a park, and its program is as light and harmless as a passing cloud-Gershwin, Sousa, Leroy Anderson. This follows the old axiom that serious music, like aged whisky, should be saved for cold winter nights.* But the music that Conductor Andre Kostelanetz chose to open the New York Philharmonic "Promenades" series last week had real substance-Shostakovich, Ravel, Alan Hovhaness...
...Women, television and magazine reporters are barred. The current roster, frozen at 50 regular members entitled to wear Gridiron lapel buttons, is made up mostly of bureau chiefs. But the club does have 15 limited members, chiefly to provide music and song for the annual skits. John Philip Sousa was one of the first limited members, and since his day, the director of the U.S. Marine Band has always been asked to join the club...
...turn off the lights before the audience stopped demanding encores. And in Moscow, the audience shouted "March, march, American march!" at concert's end, clamoring for the stirring piece of U.S. music that had been the Eastman's show stopper in other cities. The march: John Philip Sousa's The Stars and Stripes Forever...
...wilted by the score; stretcher-bearers darted back and forth between the ranks lugging out casualties. The show was stolen by the antics of hundreds of marching market mammies, clad in colorful, wraparound calico dresses and gaily colored turbans. As they began to step out, the band switched from Sousa marches to jazzy, Ghanaian High Life numbers. Swinging their enormous hips in rhythm to the music, the mammies pranced, jigged and jived by the broadly smiling Queen while Prince Philip bent double and slapped his knee in laughter...
...week, between showings of Fanny, customers got 37 minutes of Americana that included the choir from Centenary College in Shreveport, La., singing Beautiful Dreamer before a backdrop of amiably winking stars. French tumblers sang while they somersaulted, and a ballet was performed before a village bandstand to John Philip Sousa marches, in which the dancers spread their skirts in semicircular swirls, suggesting so many red, white and blue cheese cutters. And, of course, the celebrated chorus line of Rockettes was there, kicking and tapping with brilliant puellageneity. In the end, a glowing reproduction of the Statue of Liberty came rising...