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	John Philip Sousa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sousa was born in Washington, D.C. to John António de Sousa (born in Spain to Portuguese parents) and his wife, Maria Elisabeth Trinkhaus (born in Bavaria).
		Sousa repeatedly refused to conduct on the radio, fearing the lack of personal contact with the audience; he was persuaded to do so in 1929, and was very successful.
		One year after the 1882 transit of Venus, Sousa was commissioned to compose a processional for the unveiling of a bronze statue of American physicist Prof.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Philip_Sousa (905 words)

	The Music of John Philip Sousa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Sousa dedicated this march to the Opening of the Panama Pacific Exposition in San Francisco and may have been written by him on a earlier visit while director of the US marines band in 1892.
		Sousa wrote this march at the request of the Boy Scouts and he was presented with a trophy as his reward.
		Sousa was impressed by the Salvation Army volunteer musicians and conducted a massed Salvation army band in the premiere of this march.
	www.worldmilitarybands.com /sousamus.htm (3004 words)

	The Mediadrome - History - John Philip Sousa: The Leader of the Band
		Sousa continued writing marches and the band, much to the delight of their audiences, continued playing them.
		Sousa never gave up his dream to take the band on tour, but it wasn't until he spoke with President Benjamin Harrison's wife that he got what he wanted.
		Sousa, wearing his U.S. Navy lieutenant commander's uniform, was laid in state at the Marine Band Auditorium.
	www.themediadrome.com /content/articles/history_articles/sousa.htm (2102 words)

	Notes on Sousa
		Sousa completed the score for this march in 1930 at the age of seventyfive.
		Sousa was a patriot of the highest order and his talents included arranging, composing, conducting, and writing.
		Sousa, sixty three years old, and at the pinnacle of his success, signed on with the Navy to be in charge of the training of its bands.
	www.brevard.cc.fl.us /~cbob/notes-sousa.html (877 words)

	John Philip Sousa -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Sousa was born in (Click link for more info and facts about Washington, D.C.) Washington, D.C. to John Antonio Sousa and his wife, Maria Elisabeth Trinkhaus.
		In 1867, his father enlisted Sousa (then age 13) in the (An amphibious division of the United States Navy) United States Marine Corps as an apprentice after he attempted to run away and join a (A genus of haws comprising the harriers) circus.
		Sousa repeatedly refused to conduct on the (A communication system based on broadcasting electromagnetic waves) radio, fearing the lack of personal contact with the audience; he was persuaded to do so in 1929, and was very successful.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/j/jo/john_philip_sousa.htm (1055 words)

	PBS: Think Tank: Transcript for "Who Was John Philip Sousa?"
		I mean, in his time, Sousa was the Madonna, Sousa was Elvis, he was the most popular musician in the United States, maybe one of the most popular musicians in the world, because his music went all over the world.
		Sousa knew this in the end of his life, he knew that with the depression, and with jazz coming in, and new popular music, that there was a different feeling.
		RIFE: Sousa was an enthusiast, he had two goals in his life, he wanted his music to be successful and his performance to be successful, and he had a great deal of ambition, and he was very proud of his ambition.
	www.pbs.org /thinktank/transcript903.html (3254 words)

	A Nation on the March (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Sousa generally performed his own works as encores, and such was their popularity, he would draw an audience even when none of his works was listed in the program.
		After Sousa's death in 1932, Harding wrote letters to the Sousa family and their attorneys, and just a few months later, it was agreed that the collection would be moved from warehouses in New York City to the university.
		Sousa's range of skills and manners served each other so that the entire product--his persona, his music, his musicians, his uniform, the promotional efforts, and the resultant crowds -- was as harmonious as the music itself.
	www.neh.fed.us /news/humanities/1997-11/sousa.html (1813 words)

	Aristides de Sousa Mendes
		Aristides de Sousa Mendes was born on July 9, 1885, in the village of Cabanas de Viriato in the scenic northern province of Beira Alta, Portugal.
		Sousa Mendes spoke later of those he was not able to prevent from committing suicide in front of him.
		Much of Sousa Mendes' work among the refugees has been lost to history, but ii is known that he began to lead groups to an obscure border post where the guard knew nothing of Teotonio Pereira, and that he did not leave the streets of Hendaye until June 26, when the Germans moved into Bayonne.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/biography/Mendes.html (5290 words)

	Willow Grove Park - John Philip Sousa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		When Sousa took over leadership of the Marine Band in 1880, his first act was to change the band's repertoire, displacing mediocrity with the finest music available from Europe.
		John Philip Sousa and his band played at Willow Grove park from 1901 to 1926, except for the year 1911, when the band was on a world tour.
		Sousa wrote several fictional novels as well as his autobiography.
	www.wgpark.com /page.asp?page=8 (710 words)

	John Philip Sousa & The Transit of Venus
		Sousa originally composed the march for the unveiling ceremony of the statue of Joseph Henry, the first Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.
		Sousa wrote at least four marches about the way the heavenly bodies march across the night sky.
		Sousa's copies of the music were destroyed in a flood.
	transitofvenus.org /sousa.htm (881 words)

	Portsmouth Herald Maine News: Judge upholds Sousa felony rulings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Sousa, of 24 George St., was indicted by a federal grand jury on charges that he possessed and used a firearm as a convicted felon.
		He was also indicted on a charge of abusing a position of public trust to facilitate the concealment of his offense, and a charge of willfully obstructing and impeding the administration of justice during the course of the investigation into the incident.
		Sousa was visiting his friend, Jason Lonergan, who was hosting a social gathering in his yard off Dismukes Street, a residential duplex he rents from Sousa.
	www.seacoastonline.com /news/02042005/maine/62664.htm (579 words)

	John Philip Sousa
		John Antonio Sousa came to the United States as a young man, and, while serving as a musician in the United States Navy, met Maria in Brooklyn, New York, and married her in the late 1840’s.
		The Sousas then moved to Washington, D.C. As the new leader of the Marine Band, Sousa immediately reviewed the library of music for the band and eliminated many scores of music, and added better compositions to their repertoire, including some new music that he had written for the band.
		Sousa was a great composer, a great musician, a very patriotic American, a highly talented band director, and was reverently and admiringly respected by his musicians, friends, and the public at large.
	www.spanamwar.com /Sousa.htm (1667 words)

	John Philip Sousa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		John Philip Sousa was born in Washington, D.C. on Nov. 6, 1854.
		Sousa, known as the "March King," ranks among the most famous American composers and conductors.
		Sousa was the leader of the U.S. Marine Band from 1880 until 1892.
	www.loc.gov /rr/hispanic/portam/sousa.html (324 words)

	John Philip Sousa
		When Sousa left the Marine Band seven years later, he worked as a violinist and a conductor with touring shows.
		In 1880, the Marine Band asked Sousa to be their leader, and he said yes.
		John Philip Sousa is still known as the "March King." He is best known as a composer of band marches, of which he composed 135.
	www.sbgmusic.com /html/teacher/reference/composers/sousa.html (571 words)

	Sousa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Philip Sousa - composer of many marching band songs.
		Humpback Dolphins - the members of the genus Sousa.
		This is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sousa (86 words)

	Sousa's song is country's national march
		Sousa himself is ``the most famous band musician this country has ever known,'' according to Saied.
		Born in Washington, D.C., Sousa was the third of 10 children of John Antonio Sousa and Maria Elisabeth Trinkhaus.
		Sousa formed a civilian group, the Sousa Band, which performed its first concert Sept. 26, 1892, at Stillman Music Hall in Plainfield, N.J. Sousa's first successful operetta, ``El Capitan,'' debuted in 1895.
	www.gabbf.com /sousa.html (966 words)

	Encyclopedia: Washington LuÃs Pereira de Sousa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Washington Luís Pereira de Sousa (October 26, 1869 - August 4, 1957) was a Brazilian politician.
		Elected governor of São Paulo state in 1922 and president of Brazil in 1926, Pereira de Sousa was the last president of the Brazilian First Republic (see also café com leite, coronelismo).
		He elected his friend Julio Prestes in a fake election as his successor in 1930, but just 3 weeks before the end of his term, Pereira de Sousa was overthrown by a coup d'etat (1930 Revolution) and was succeeded by a military junta.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Washington-Lu%c3%ads-Pereira-de-Sousa (805 words)

	Great Performances . Educational Resources . Composer Biographies . John Philip Sousa \| PBS
		Known as the "March King." He was an apprentice in the US Marine Band, then played the violin in theatre orchestras before turning to conducting.
		Sousa had great impact on American musical tastes and achieved worldwide fame; the sousaphone, made to his specifications, was named after him.
		Sousa wrote much vocal music: his operettas, e.g.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/gperf/education/sousa.html (116 words)

	Background Reading: Music
		Sousa's Transit of Venus March remains a delightful, and rarely-played addition to Sousa's very famous and much loved opus of compositions.
		Sousa's March doesn't exhaust all of the musical possibilities for this event that can be found at the Library of Congress.
		Sousa's music is regularly played at several of our summer outdoor concerts under a gazebo with a lush park facility.
	sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov /sunearthday/2004/vt_edu2004_venus_back_mus.htm (1394 words)

	Sousa, John Philip
		Sousa is known all over the world as a composer of fabulous marches for band.
		Sousa also authored instructional materials for percussionists, violinists, and trumpeters.
		In 1898 a special tuba called the "sousaphone" was developed for the Sousa band.
	stevenestrella.com /composers/composerfiles/sousa1932.html (413 words)

	Sounds of Sousa Band Members
		Sousa's childhood and his entry into the United States Marine Corp. at the age of 13.
		Sousa wrote for band and the type of music he wrote.
		Sousa's impact on the world of entertainment and the what he did for the concert band movement in The United States.
	www.soundsofsousa.com /dynamic/lesson_plans.aspx (1301 words)

	John Philip Sousa Collection
		A century later, in the 1990s, Sousa’s musical offerings are heard at concerts, sporting events, through electronic media, at military and civilian ceremonies, and are an integral component of the American experience.
		Over 120 holograph manuscript scores and music sketches penned by the "March King" may be found in the UIUC Sousa materials, as well as the band parts to his "Stars and Stripes Forever," declared the National March of the United States by an Act of Congress in December 1987.
		Sousa and Harding’s relationship dates to 1906 when the Sousa Band performed in Champaign; the ensuing friendship spanned nearly three decades.
	lrs.ed.uiuc.edu /students/r-rosas/souscoll.htm (1094 words)

	Foot-Tapping, Heart-Thumping Salute Honors Sousa (washingtonpost.com)
		With the clear fall sky reflected in the band's silver sousaphones, the musicians were joined by other Sousa music lovers and many Sousa descendants who assembled around the graves of Sousa, his wife and their three children.
		After the cemetery salute yesterday, many participants reassembled for the Marine Corps' dedication of the state-of-the-art John Philip Sousa Band Hall, part of a new $28 million Marine Barracks Annex at Seventh and K streets SE, not far from where Sousa was raised.
		Born in 1854, Sousa was a boy when the streets of Civil War-era Washington were filled with soldiers and martial music, according to Master Gunnery Sgt. Michael Ressler, the Marine Band's chief librarian.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A30951-2004Nov6.html (625 words)

	NPR : Commemorating John Philip Sousa's 150th
		Sousa is perhaps best known for the march "Stars and Stripes Forever," but he also wrote waltzes and other classical pieces in addition to marches.
		Another of Sousa's more famous tunes is "The Washington Post March" -- named after the oldest newspaper serving the nation's capital.
		What isn't widely known is that the newspaper commissioned Sousa to write the piece in 1889 to promote an essay contest it was sponsoring.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=4156340 (203 words)

	John Philip Sousa (from popular music) -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		John Philip Sousa, the former leader of the United States Marine Band, began directing his own band in popular, ragtime, and semiclassical music and also in the famous marches he composed.
		More results on "John Philip Sousa (from popular music)" when you join.
		Sousa, who led the Marine Band under four Presidents, is best remembered for his rousing compositions like the 'Semper Fidelis' March.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-205081?ct= (766 words)

	Sousa- (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Before you begin your new job, you need to become familiar with the history of the Marine Band, the life of John Philip Sousa (the band's most famous conductor), and the band instrument Mr.
		Read about John Philip Sousa and then write (neatly written in ink or typed) a summary in your own words about his life.
		Sousa, the United States Marine Band, a sousaphone, or anything patriotic.
	learning.usd383.org /tlcf/tlcf2001/products/kleinau (718 words)

	J.W. Pepper & Son, Inc.
		Indeed, Conn instruments were in use by the Sousa band by 1898.
		In the course of researching the history of the Pepper company we have found reason to believe that the first bell upright, bass brass instrument was built by the J.W. Pepper Co. in 1893 and displayed at the industrial exhibt in Philadelphia of that same year.
		Pictured with the original Pepper Sousaphone is James "Jimmy" Saied, well known conductor and Sousa impersonator.
	www.jwpepper.com /history/sousa.html (365 words)

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