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...Mayor James J. Walker had grateful remarks ready for all Belgium. Royally did it respond at its concert for the benefit of the Reconstruction Hospital, playing symphonic music according to the arrangements of Leader Arthur Prevost with skill and spirit well calculated to rival the bands of John Philip Sousa and the U.S. Marines, or even the historic German Band which attended Chicago's World's Fair...
...included prize offers of $10,000 and $5,000 for best and second-best short compositions suitable for a jazz orchestra. The $25,000 symphonic contest stays open until next May. Winners of the jazz contest were named last week in Manhattan at a dinner at which John Philip Sousa was toastmaster...
...buzzing in the Palo Alto living room became a loud caucus of triumph. John Philip Sousa's band blared its best. The President-elect was sitting down at the moment. He did not get up at once but sat, eyes downcast, embarrassed, rubbing his forehead with his fingertips. They wanted a speech. "Not tonight," he said. Outside the house, a phalanx of Stanford University undergraduates yelled persistently. The President-elect reluctantly took his way to the terraced roof of his house, under the California stars. Tears glistened on his cheeks as he looked down on that fragment...
...Delilah" Saint-Saens Ave Maria Bach-Gounod Rhapsody in Blue Gershwin Songs with Orchestra a. An Old Time Celebration F. W. Newton '90 b. That Mascot P. B. Lewis '18 c. Dear Alma Mater L. R. Lewis '87 Selection, "Show Boat" Keru Walts, "Estudiantina" Waldteufel Stars and Stripes Forever Sousa...
Chief Judge John Philip Sousa of the National Band Concert, sponsored by the bureau at Joliet, had to listen last week while 27 bands comprising 2,000 high schoolers successively blared Finlandia, a stirring tone-poem of famed Finn Jean Sibelius. Although the genius of Sibelius has brought him a permanent subsidy from the Finnish government, he did not compose the national anthem: Maame Laulu ("The Song of our Country"), opus of Funns Bacius (composer) and Runeberg (poet...