Marine Bandġ) A Playback Device to listen to/play along with the Marine Band. July 4-“The Stars and Stripes Forever” collage video will be released by ABA and the U.S. June 1-Video submissions for “The Stars and Stripes Forever” due by midnight EDT Choose the part you normally play at school. (Participation in the play along is not required to submit a video depending on the volume of entries, not all videos may be featured, but as many as possible will be included.) Students through 12th grade are invited to submit a video of themselves performing “The Stars and Stripes Forever” which will be released in a collage video format on July 4. SUBMITTING A VIDEO FOR THE STARS AND STRIPES PROJECT This acoustical recording, unlike many others, has audible, clear, well-recorded drums.Marine Barracks Annex, Washington, D.C. In 1893, this march was recorded on North American Phonograph Company cylinder #613 by Foh's 23rd Regiment Band of New York. It has been reissued in the compact disc era in 1999 by Legacy International as March King: John Philip Sousa Conducts His Own Marches, and as the earliest track of its 26-disc compendium of the history of the Columbia label, Sony Music 100 Years: Soundtrack For A Century. Recordings Īlthough many recordings of this march have been made over the years, the original recording of the march played by the United States Marine Band, conducted by Sousa's concertmaster, was made on Graphophone cylinder for the fledgling Columbia Records company in Washington, D.C., in 1890, catalogue Columbia Cylinder Military #8. The "two step" became so strongly identified with Sousa's march that the dance was often called "The Washington Post".
Typically, the march is played at a tempo of 110 to 120 beats per minute, rarely any faster. The opening strain of the march is famous and familiar to many. Written in compound duple meter, it is suited as an accompaniment to the two-step, a new dance introduced at that time. This recognizable march is written in standard form: IAABBCCDCDC. Composition Īudio playback is not supported in your browser. The composition is in the public domain in the US, as its copyright has expired, due to Sousa having been dead for more than 70 years and it having been published before the early 1920s.ĭuring the award ceremony the young essay contest winners were presented with gold medals, that were hand-crafted by local jewelers Galt & Bro., with each having a unique designs and custom engravings.
Sousa is honored in The Washington Post building for his contribution to the newspaper and his country. This led to a British journalist dubbing Sousa "The March King". Sousa obliged "The Washington Post" was introduced at a ceremony on June 15, 1889, "with President Benjamin Harrison in attendance" before "a huge crowd on the grounds of the Smithsonian Museum." It quickly became quite popular in both the United States and Europe as the standard musical accompaniment to the two-step, a late 19th-century dance craze. In 1889, the recent purchasers of The Washington Post newspaper- Frank Hatton, a former Postmaster General, and Beriah Wilkins, a former Democratic congressman from Ohio-requested that Sousa, the leader of the United States Marine Band, compose a march for the newspaper's essay contest awards ceremony, in conjunction with a campaign to promote the newspaper under new ownership.