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 ...

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. But unlike Joplin and Morton, who ...

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, ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Nostalgia reigns on Sunday (Oct. 2) when the Purdue Symphonic Band will stage a band concert in the style of John Philip Sousa, the most influential bandleader of the early 20th ...