![]() ![]() John Henken is the Philharmonic's Director of Publications. Gordon Benes Peters has made a name for himself as an orchestra player, conductor, teacher, administrator, author and composer.Peters grew up in Cicero.US16. His skill as a piano improviser and his great love of American music came together (not for the first time) in his freewheeling adaptation of The Stars and Stripes Forever. Gould created orchestral scores for various media and genres, including Broadway musicals ( Billion Dollar Baby), ballets ( Fall River Legend), films ( Windjammer), and television ( Holocaust). He studied at the Institute of Musical Art in New York and throughout his teen years gave piano recitals, in which improvisation on themes suggested by the audience usually played a part. As an example, Sousa wrote lyrics for The Stars and Stripes Forever so that he could sell the popular march as a song.Īnother child prodigy, the multifariously talented Morton Gould wrote his first compositions at the age of six. Royalties from sheet music sales made Sousa rich, and he took every opportunity to expand his market. In addition to 135 marches, Sousa composed 70 songs, a number of operettas, and suites and fantasies for band. The piccolo part is play on a Tranjo, a full-scale travel banjo that comes. near Philadelphia, Willow Grove Park The Sousa Band, John Philip Sousa (conductor) First Pub lication. None force assignment Key E-flat major Year/Date of Composition Y/D of Comp. Title Composer Sousa, John Philip: I-Catalogue Number I-Cat. The Artist: John Philip Sousa was an American composer and conductor known primarily for American military marches. ![]() Twelve years later he resigned and formed his own band, which became famous around the world thanks to Sousa's inspired marches. Banjo Master Bill Knopf and his 'twin' take on John Philip Sousas classic march. The Stars and Stripes Forever Alt ernative. A few years later he could be found leading a vaudeville orchestra in Washington, D.C., and in 1880 he returned to the Marine Band as its new director. Piccolo), 2 oboes, English horn, 3 clarinets, 3 bassoons (3rd = contrabassoon), 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion (including snare drum), and six pianosĪlthough John Philip Sousa began his musical studies on the violin under his father's guidance, he soon became proficient on wind instruments - so much so that he was playing in the Marine Band by the time he was 13 years old. ![]()
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