John Philip Sousa

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Born: November 6, 1854, Washington, D.C., USA
Died: March 6, 1932, Reading, Pennsylvania, USA

The golden age of Sousa marches on CD may be upon us! We now have a CD set of all the recordings made by the Sousa Band (usually, but not always, without Sousa). We have the Detroit Concert Band's set of all 116 published marches available on 5 CDs. We have a series of CDs from the US Marine Band, the band Sousa left to start his own group, who probably play more Sousa in a year than nearly anyone else plays in a lifetime. We have all of Fennell's Sousa recordings with Eastman on CD. And we have worthy interpretations from Keith Brion, Donald Hunsberger, and many other conductors and bands.

The Fanfare reviews go on about the recent releases in detail. Let them guide you to the riches we now have available. It is a wonderful time to be a Sousa fan.

Recordings

Title/Works	Performers	Reviews	Stores
Sousa Marches Played by the Sousa Band (3-CD set)	Sousa Band	Camner	Tower Amazon
Complete Marches (5-CD set)	Detroit Concert Band Leonard B. Smith		Tower Amazon
Sousa's Greatest Hits	US Marine Band		Tower Amazon
Sousa Original	US Marine Band	Camner	Tower Amazon
Sousa Original II	US Marine Band	Camner	Tower Amazon
Sousa Original 3	US Marine Band Albert Schoepper		Tower Amazon
Sousa Original 4	US Marine Band Timothy Foley		Tower Amazon
Sound Off / Sousa on Review	Eastman Wind Ensemble Frederick Fennell	Youngren	Tower Amazon
Music for Wind Band Volume 1	Royal Artillery Band Keith Brion		Tower Amazon
Music for Wind Band Volume 2	Royal Artillery Band Keith Brion	Camner	Tower Amazon
Music for Wind Band Volume 3	Royal Artillery Band Keith Brion		Tower Amazon
The Original All-American Sousa	New Sousa Band and Sousa Band Keith Brion	Youngren	Tower Amazon
Stars & Stripes & Sousa!	Washington Winds Keith Brion		Tower
Sousa	USAF Heritage of America Band Lowell Graham	Camner	Amazon
A Grand Sousa Concert	American Main St. Band Timothy Foley	Youngren	Tower Amazon
Strictly Sousa	Dallas Wind Symphony Jerry Junkin	Camner	Tower Amazon
Sousa Spectacular	Eastman Wind Ensemble Donald Hunsberger	Youngren Youngren	Tower Amazon
The Stars and Stripes Forever (15 Sousa marches)	University of Michigan Band William D. Revelli		Tower Amazon
Hands Across The Sea / Marching Along (6 Sousa marches)	Eastman Wind Ensemble Frederick Fennell		Tower Amazon
The Military Band (6 Sousa marches)	Concert Arts Symphonic Band Felix Slatkin		Tower Amazon
The Golden Age of the American March (4 Sousa marches)	Goldman Band Richard Franko Goldman and Ainslee Cox	McColley	Tower Amazon
Always Ready (4 Sousa marches)	United States Coast Guard Band Lewis J. Buckley		Tower Amazon
America the Beautiful (4 Sousa marches)	Detroit Concert Band Leonard B. Smith		Tower Amazon
Marches I've Missed (Northern Pines / Gladiator)	Dallas Wind Symphony Frederick Fennell	McColley	Tower Amazon
Stars and Stripes (The Stars and Stripes Forever)	Cleveland Symphonic Winds Frederick Fennell	Bauman	Tower Amazon
Live in Osaka (The Stars and Stripes Forever)	Eastman Wind Ensemble Donald Hunsberger	North	Tower Amazon
Thoroughbred Thunder (Black Horse Troop, Riders for the Flag)	Matthew H. Phillips & His Circus Band		Tower Amazon
Sojourns (Easter Monday on the White House Lawn)	North Texas Wind Symphony Eugene Corporon	Zagorski	Tower Amazon
Classics With a Twist (Fairest of the Fair)	El Paso Wind Symphony Ron Hufstader		Tower Amazon
When the Trumpets Call (Gridiron Club)	University of Georgia Wind Symphony		Tower Amazon

Scores

This series of Sousa scores edited by Keith Brion and Loras Schissel is remarkable. Sousa performed his marches very differently in indoor performances than what was published in the scores. Some attribute that to Sousa wanting to keep ahead of the competition, others to the difference between Sousa's indoor concert performances vs. a publication oriented to marching bands. In any event, anyone who has listened to or performed in a band conducted by someone skilled in the Sousa style knows the great difference these changes to the published music can make. Brion and Schissel are making great strides in committing this oral tradition to print.

Books

John Philip Sousa: American Phenomenon by Paul E. Bierley
Marching Along: Recollections of Men, Women and Music by John Philip Sousa