Newspapers, we all agree, are not what they were. The thing we don't agree on is why. Is it the internet? Or the decline in reading? Is it because reporters are biased? Or because reporters are so ...

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 ...

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. More than that, he nurtured and ...

Few know the lyrics, but as opening notes sound on this Fourth of July, folks will rise from picnic blankets and bleachers. Hats will come off. Miniature flags will wave. “The Stars and Stripes ...

The W.D. Packard Concert Band is taking its “March” concert literally. Sunday’s performance will focus on the marches composed by John Philip Sousa, and each song will be directed by a Packard Band ...

SOUSA MARCH. A newly discovered march by John Philip Sousa, written two years before his death and featuring a drum cadence that recalls his famous “Semper Fidelis,” will have its U.S. premiere Friday ...

On March 16, 1917, 100 years ago this month, John Philip Sousa and his band performed in concert at the Academy of Music in Reading. “The celebrated March King and his distinguished organization of 50 ...

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 “March King.” ...