John Philip Souza Fans!! March!!

[Crazy Guggenheim]

[Crazy Guggenheim]

1. A show card.

[non sociopath skin]

22. Thanks Crazy. I loved this programme card.

I have this real thing about turn-of-the-Twentieth-century America. If I believed in reincarnation, I would be absolutely convinced that I'd been there before. Sousa may not be the world's greatest musician but his music - and I prefer his theatre music to his marches - is such an evocative soundtrack to the era that it always sends a shiver up my spine.

I did a Google search for Willow Grove Park and found some wonderful old photographs - amazing feeling longing and nostalgia for something that happened thousands of miles away half a century before I was born.

Writers are WEIRD!

The Skin

[Crazy Guggenheim]

2. Conducting the UCLA Marching Band.

[Rabrrrrrr]

3. Ewwww. That makes me sick. I fucking hate Sousa music.

Ugh.

:puke:

But I totally affirm your right to love his music, and, though I'm ready to otherwise censor and remove from the collective unconscious vast amounts of shitty musicians, I would never touch Sousa that way; as much as I hate his music, at least he was legit.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

6. I should re-title this an earworm thread.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

4. A great man!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. My dear Crazy Guggenheim!

These old images are so beautiful...I LOVE the program especially...

As always, thank you for bringing beauty to the Lounge...It means a lot...

:loveya:

[billyskank]

7. Ba-dum da dadadadum dum dadum dadaa dadaa dadaaaaaa

Ba-dum da dadadadum dum dadum dadaa dadaa dadaaaaaa
Ba-dum da dadadadum dum dadum dadaa dadaa dadaaaaaa
Dadum dadadadadum dadadadadum dadum dadaaa...

[KitchenWitch]

8. I LOVE Sousa

He really revolutionized Brass music!

[billyskank]

9. And he wrote a shit load of really cheesy marches, too!

:)

[Crazy Guggenheim]

10. A great conductor! For the large and small.

[Heidi]

11. Give me just one minute, please . . .

to slip into my high school band uniform!

[sasquatch]

12. Is he the reason why all marching bands look like they're fighting in the-

Napoleonic wars?

[Crazy Guggenheim]

14. Old school!!

[Crazy Guggenheim]

13. A tough demanding composer.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

15. What is your favorite JPS March?

Mine: The Liberty Bell.

[tjwmason]

17. I'm afraid that when I hear it

My only thought is of Monty Python's Flying Circus.

[billyskank]

21. I would have said "The Liberty Bell" as well

"The Washington Post" sucks.

[TheMightyFavog]

23. A quite Obscure one...

Wisconsin Forward Forever.

Written for Wiconsin Troops in WWI, It's interesting that he included a lot of very German polka-esque themes in it. Quite surprising, given the anit-Germnan sentiment at the time. (i.e. renaming sauerkraut "Liberty Cabbage)

[Historic NY]

16. Try this.......I recommend high volume.

http://www.dws.org/sousa/ra/usfielda.ra

[tjwmason]

18. I of only 3 people to have an instrument named after him

working from memory

The others being Adolphe Sax (saxophone), and Maurice Martinot (ondes-martinot).

Having said that now folk are going to throw up thousands of such people whom I've forgotten.

[Spinzonner]

19. Sousa-phone home

[cleofus1]

20. in high school

Nogales High School 1976...we played stars and stripes forever...the greatest march ever written...