Over the course of five summers at the Aspen Music Festival he studied bassoon and conducting at different times, the latter with Paul Vermel. He holds degrees from Boston University in bassoon and musicology, and a doctorate in conducting from the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, where he studied with Frederik Prausnitz. His teachers included among others Leonard Sharrow and Sherman Walt, former principals of the Chicago and Boston Symphonies respectively. Keen listeners may notice a brief reference to the old barbershop standard “Sweet Adeline.”īassoonist, conductor, and composer William Spencer began his serious musical studies on bassoon at age 12 (after a few years of piano lessons had no apparent effect whatsoever).
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The Sousa is so well-known that I hardly like to suggest how to approach this admittedly somewhat light-hearted arrangement, but I encourage (as far as is practical) a nice peppy overall tempo, and careful attention to the balance of the different lines, since the tune keeps escaping from one part and ending up in another.
Bierley, John Philip Sousa, page 71.) - Researched by Marcus L.For four bassoons and contrabassoon (or five bassoons)īy John Philip Sousa (1854-1932) - American composer, the "March King" I wrote in on Christmas Day, 1896.” (Taken from program notes for the week beginning August 19th, 1923. On board the steamer as I walked miles up and down the deck, back and forth, a mental band was playing ‘Stars and Stripes Forever.’ Day after day as i walked it persisted in crashing into my very soul. I rushed to Genoa, then to Paris and to England and sailed for America. I was in Italy and I wished to get home as soon as possible. “I was in Europe and I got a cablegram that my manager was dead. Sousa, the march was written with the inspiration of God. The first came as the result of an interview on Mr.
Er is één opname - uit 1909 - bewaard gebleven waarop Sousa de mars zelf dirigeert. Hij bracht het werk bij vrijwel ieder concert dat hij gaf ten gehore. Sousa componeerde het werk in 1896 aan boord van een schip dat hem naar Europa bracht. De mars wordt beschouwd als het magnum opus van de Amerikaanse componist John Philip Sousa. There are two commentaries of how the march was inspired. Stars and Stripes Forever is bij wet de nationale mars van de Verenigde Staten. The march has been named as the national march of the United States. The author has noted the same emotional response of audiences to the march today. Sousa’s concerts and always drew tears to the eyes of the audience. The march was performed on almost all of Mr. Sousa added to the entertainment value of the march by having the piccolo(s) line up in front of the band for the final trio, and then added the trumpets and trombones join them on the final repeat of the strain. In fact, audiences rose from their chairs when the march was played. Coupled with his Trooping of the Colors, the march quickly gained a vigorous response from audiences and critics alike. Sousa used it during the Spanish-American War as a concert closer. The march was not quite so well received though and actually got an over average rating for a new Sousa march. Bierley, University of Illinois Press, 1973, page 71)). taken from John Philip Sousa, Descriptive Catalog of his Works (Paul E.
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(Research done by Elizabeth Hartman, head of the music department, Free Library of Philadelphia. As reported in the Philedelphia Public Ledger (May 15, 1897) “… It is stirring enough to rouse the American eagle from his crag, and set him to shriek exultantly while he hurls his arrows at the aurora borealis.” (referring to the concert the Sousa Band gave the previous day at the Academy of Music). Stars and Stripes Forever (march) is considered the finest march ever written, and the same time one of the most patriotic ever conceived.
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