Word: sousas
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...prevent the reoccurrence of similar fugitive aspirations, a stern officer in full regalia read to the awed stripling a list of imposing regulations. He was informed that any attempt at desertion would be punished by a firing squad at daybreak. The threat sufficed; for two years, John Phillips Sousa remained a fearfully earnest apprentice in the marine corps band...
Since then for more than fifty years the composed militarily erect figure of John Phillips Sousa has dominated the world of military music. Although undoubtedly a great director and a versatile technician, he must acknowledge superiors in these fields. But as the inspired composer of stirring martial melodies he stands alone. In the blare of trumpets, the blast of horns, the shrill of clarinets, the reverberating beat of drums lies an overpowering factor in the patriotism of a nation. Of these elements Sousa was possibly the greatest master that the world has ever known. With consummate skill he combined them...
...month patriotic celebration. At noon President Hoover addressed a joint session of Congress, attended by his Cabinet and the diplomatic corps. After his speech he appeared at the east front of the Capitol and heard 12,000 people sing "America" under the direction of Walter Damrosch and John Philip Sousa. After lunch the President motored to Alexandria, Va. to review a parade which included cadets from Virginia Military Institute, the Richmond Blues, American Legionnaries and the apparatus which George Washington bought for Alexandria's Friendship Fire Company. At Mount Vernon the President spoke to a convention of the National...
...Cultural standards must somehow be upheld. . . . The universities of America must learn to play the part of Mussolini in these matters and not the part of Sousa...
...Birthdays. Dr. Henry Van Dyke, 79; John Philip Sousa, 77; Ida Minerva Tarbell, 74; Leopold, Duke of Brabant, Belgium's heir...