Musicians gathered on Make Music Day to play the marches of John Philip Sousa for a free Sousapalooza concert held outside at Baldwin Wallace University. (Beth Mlady, special to cleveland.com) ...

What's behind America's enduring love for Sousa? First, Leslie said, is that "when Sousa wrote his marches and music, it was the popular music of the day.

John Philip Sousa, also known as the March King, was a legendary American composer and conductor. Read more about the biography, famous John Philip Sousa marches like The Stars and Stripes Forever ...

September 22, 2005 Sousa concert invokes musical charisma of bygone era WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Nostalgia reigns on Sunday (Oct. 2) when the Purdue Symphonic Band will stage a band concert in the style ...

LIMA — The Lima Area Concert Band’s second subscription series, “Salute To Sousa,” will be held at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at Veterans Memorial Civic Center. John Philip Sousa is known as the ...

For years, the world's largest archive of original compositions and arrangements by John Philip Sousa -- more than four tons of it -- was stuffed into file drawers and cabinets, accessible to only ...

Back when Sousa was the march king, every newspaper had a march of its own.

Many marches have been composed since Sousa's death in 1932, at age 77, but have any really approached the grandeur of "The Stars and Stripes Forever" or the forward drive of "The Washington Post ...