In this, the seventh installment in Naxos' outstanding Sousa: Music for Wind Band series, Keith Brion and the Royal Artillery Band take on some of the lesser investigated aspects of John Philip Sousa's activity, mainly concentrating on works Sousa composed in the 1880s and 1890s. While much of the most popular music of Sousa is concentrated into works written between 1889 and 1901, Sousa: Music for Wind Band, Vol. 7, demonstrates that the decade before that wasn't half bad, either, with such fine entries as The Rifle ...
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In this, the seventh installment in Naxos' outstanding Sousa: Music for Wind Band series, Keith Brion and the Royal Artillery Band take on some of the lesser investigated aspects of John Philip Sousa's activity, mainly concentrating on works Sousa composed in the 1880s and 1890s. While much of the most popular music of Sousa is concentrated into works written between 1889 and 1901, Sousa: Music for Wind Band, Vol. 7, demonstrates that the decade before that wasn't half bad, either, with such fine entries as The Rifle Regiment March and The Presidential Polonaise (both 1886), the latter written at the request of American President Chester A. Arthur as an alternative to "Hail to the Chief," a ditty Arthur felt was less than dignified. The Presidential Polonaise carries with it an appropriate amount of pomp and sense of occasion and is just as catchy as "Hail to the Chief," so one wonders why it didn't stick. Among great marches drawn from Sousa's operettas, one may find El Capitan (1896) and The...
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