Links
Sousa Recordings
|
Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project Project at the Univ. of California at Santa Barbara to digitize old cylinder recordings. At least 80 different records of the Sousa Band and Sousa music played by other bands of the day. |
|
Internet Archive: Collected Works of Sousa's Band Free download of many original Sousa Band recordings! |
|
Sousa recordings available from Amazon.com |
The Dallas Wind Symphony's "Strictly Sousa" CD |
Sousa research and other information
| The Music of John Philip Sousa (WorldMilitaryBands.com) Contains short descriptions of a large number of Sousa works. |
|
Saxophone Soloists with Sousa Introduction to Michael Hester's doctoral thesis on the saxophone soloists of Sousa's Band. Includes links to several photos of Sousa's sax section. |
|
International Music Score Library Project A WIKI (online encyclopedia) of public domain musical scores. Several Sousa scores available. |
|
The Sousa Archives for Band Research Index of materials at the University of Illinois; also online photos and more. |
|
Archive.org: Sousa Band recordings Several MP3 downloads of Sousa Band recordings, 1895-1918 |
|
Wikipedia entry for Sousa In-depth online article on Sousa's life and work. |
|
Sousa Biography From Naxos Records' website. |
|
America's Story from the America's Library site. |
|
U.S. Code designates "The Stars & Stripes Forever!" National March of U.S.A. |
|
The John Philip Sousa Foundation A non-profit organization that sponsors projects to promote band music and the memory of Sousa. Honor bands, awards (such as the Sudler Scroll and Flag), etc. |
|
The Story of the Sousaphone (J.W. Pepper) |
|
Project Gutenberg - Works by John Philip Sousa Includes full text to his novel "The Fifth String" and an article entitled "Experiences of a Bandmaster" |
The Clarinetists of the John Philip Sousa Band, 1892-1931 |
The Sousa March: A Personal View / (Frederick Fennell) |
Bands of the United States Armed Forces
| United States Air Force Academy Band |
|
United States Military Academy Band West Point, NY |
|
United States Army Field Band |
|
U.S. Naval Academy Band |
|
United States Coast Guard Band |
|
United States Air Force Band "America's Band" |
|
United States Army Band "Pershing's Own" |
|
United States Navy Band |
United States Marine Band |
Civilian groups that actively perform Sousa music
|
Scott Shelsta, trombone soloist Former US Army Band soloist who specializes in recreating trombone solos featured by the Sousa Band. |
|
The Kansas John Philip Sousa Honor Band |
|
The Dallas Wind Symphony "America's Premier Windband" (sponsors of this site) |
|
Oh Mr. Sousa! Stage show featuring a full concert band, multimedia and dramatic vignettes highlighting events in Sousa's life. |
|
The New Sousa Band, Keith Brion, conductor |
|
Marcus Neiman & The Sounds of Sousa Band Formed in 1992 and based in Ohio. |
|
The Ringgold Band |
|
The Allentown Band The oldest civilian concert band in the United States. |
|
The American Band |
|
The 'Yahoo' Community Band Index |
|
The Ballard Sedentary Sousa Band Seattle, Washington. |
|
The Upper Darby Sousa Band Drexel Hill, PA |
Organizations associated with Mr. Sousa
| Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity |
|
Masonic Lodges & Freemasonry Information |
| The United States Marine Corps |
Sousa in musical history
| PBS Think Tank Show on Sousa (complete transcript) Summary and full transcript of the PBS "Think Tank" episode "Who Was John Philip Sousa?" |
