There are times when a composer's name comes to serve as a popular synonym for an entire genre of music. So it is with John Philip Sousa, the Washington, D.C.-born composer and conductor whose name ...

John Philip Sousa was born on November 6, 1854, in Washington, D.C. He is celebrated as an American composer and conductor. His vibrant marches continue to echo through the halls of history and have ...

As one of America’s most famous and prolific composers, John Philip Sousa wrote 135 marches and dozens of other works, including operettas, songs and suites. Some of his early performances with the ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — 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, ...

BEREA, Ohio -- The sound of the brass and boom of the bass drum made it feel like an old-fashioned parade was coming across the north quad lawn at Baldwin Wallace University on June 21. A Sousa march ...

CHICAGO – What Scott Joplin did for ragtime and Jelly Roll Morton for jazz, John Philip Sousa achieved for another expression of the American spirit – the march. But unlike Joplin and Morton, who ...

BARRE – There are no busted brackets among the 54 members of the Quabbin Regional High School Symphonic Wind Ensemble, at least not when it comes to Sousa’s March Mania. On a damp, raw Friday morning, ...