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...Capital of a powerful nation. All are, to a degree, the provincial organs of ;he District of Columbia. And nearer the bottom of the scale of merit than the top is the Post, of which Oswald Garrison Villard once said: "Its chief claim to fame is that Sousa named an excellent march after...
...celebrate no particular holiday or hero but to show their own prowess, 42 brass bands marched the streets of Tulsa, Okla., last week, then all played together a concert under Bandmaster John Philip Sousa. This grand and noisy occasion was the climax of the Sixth National High School Band Contest. Joliet, Ill. played best of the big schools, Hobart, Ind. of the middle-sized schools, West De Pere, Wis. of the small schools. Fortnight ago in Cleveland the best orchestras came from Cleveland's Glenville High School, East Chicago's Roosevelt High School, Decatur, Mich. High School...
John Philip Sousa: His own Stars and Stripes Forever...
Asked to compose a march for next year's International Colonial and Overseas Exposition in Paris, Bandmaster John Philip Sousa replied last week to Commissioner General of the Exposition Campbell Bascom Slemp: "It will afford me great pleasure to write a march dedicated to the French Exposition. I hope that the inspiration will come shortly, and that I may be able to have the march ready by or before May 1, 1931." To date Bandmaster Sousa has turned out 132 marches, most of them occasional...
...program is as follows: Washington Post March Sousa Wedding of the Birds arranged by Rice Banjo Club Chorus of Peers Gilbert and Sullivan Bells of St. Mary's Adams Vocal Club Novelty Saxophone Specialty Robert White '32 Marche Militaire Schubert Mandolin Club Legerdemain Specialty William S. Warner '32 Intermission Hittin' the Bottle Gorney-Arlen Can This be Love? (from the Warner Bros. picture "Life of the Party") Gold Coast Orchestra Specialty Lute Solos W. S. Georges '32 Two Guitars Horlick Espana Waltz Waldteufel Mandolin Club Two Grenadiers Schuman-Zeiner Sea Chanteys (arranged by Terry) Vocal Club Football Medley (arranged...