What is your favorite Sousa March, and why?

GvB · Post by **GvB** » Sat Mar 12, 2005 12:23 pm

The Rifle Regiment great Bass line

JWRECU · Post by **JWRECU** » Sun Mar 13, 2005 1:13 pm

dont forget the Pride of the Wolverines!!!

Lew · Post by **Lew** » Sun Mar 13, 2005 1:55 pm

ThomasDodd wrote:all of them.

... National Emblem might be a current favorite, but next month it'll change.
...

National Emblem is a fun march for tubas, if only for the beginning of the trio, but it was written by E. E. Bagley.

My favorite Sousa march is The Liberty Bell. I would be interested in knowing how Monty Python ended up with a Sousa march as their theme song though.

Cameron Gates · Post by **Cameron Gates** » Sun Mar 13, 2005 2:26 pm

JWRECU wrote:dont forget the Pride of the Wolverines!!!

OK - for the first time this thread - a flame:

WHAT? Pride of the Wolverines? I just played it last night and could not help thinking what a snooooozer it was. Just a bunch of quotes from his other marches.

Sorry for the small rant.

I must keep reminding myself of what my mother used to say: "Son, everybody has a right to have their own opinion." That was usually followed by a whipping and cigarette burns.

Rick F · Post by **Rick F** » Sun Mar 13, 2005 2:38 pm

Here's a good link for the "Library of Congress March" by the Marine Band.

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cocoon/ihas/loc.n ... fault.html

This next link gives some background on that march, finished by Stephan Bulla under the encouragement of Maestro Loras Schissel (known authority on Sousa marches).

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cocoon/ihas/loc.n ... fault.html

Loras Schissel will be our guest conductor at this Tuesday's concert in City Place West Palm Beach, and then at our next concert 2 weeks later. We've heard that he is a Sousa expert. Should be a good experience.

Syphonic Band of the Palm Beaches.

scottw · Post by **scottw** » Sun Mar 13, 2005 8:16 pm

EuphoniumDude wrote:Does anyone have a recording of Black Horse Troop or Liberty Bell March? I havent heard them , but these are both songs that people like on this post.

http://www.kansasoz.com/band/wavblackhorsetroop.wav

scottw · Post by **scottw** » Sun Mar 13, 2005 8:53 pm

Cameron Gates wrote:
JWRECU wrote:dont forget the Pride of the Wolverines!!!
OK - for the first time this thread - a flame:

WHAT? Pride of the Wolverines? I just played it last night and could not help thinking what a snooooozer it was. Just a bunch of quotes from his other marches.

Sorry for the small rant.

I must keep reminding myself of what my mother used to say: "Son, everybody has a right to have their own opinion." That was usually followed by a whipping and cigarette burns.

Listen for yourself and then decide!
http://www.338tharmyband.com/music/338t ... b1e0a1a0f5
Personally, I'm with Cameron on this one!

Cameron Gates · Post by **Cameron Gates** » Sun Mar 13, 2005 11:08 pm

scottw wrote: Listen for yourself and then decide!
http://www.338tharmyband.com/music/338t ... b1e0a1a0f5
Personally, I'm with Cameron on this one!

Snoooze....... what channel is GALANT SEVENTH on.

TonyTuba · Post by **TonyTuba** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 1:18 am

Hands down favorite is the Freelance march. It joins El Crapitan as a march that was compiled from themes of an operatta that Sousa wrote, and also changes time signatures from triple to duple at the trio, giving it a good kick in the pants. Freelance works best at a quicker tempo, say quarter note = 144.

George Washington Bicentenial is a good one, too.

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