Christopher Smith wrote:
On Aug 24, 2007, at 11:00 AM, Daniel Wolf wrote:
There is a great deal of continuity between Sousa's instrumentation
and that of contemporary bands,
[snip]
The band membership also included a female vocalist, a violinist, and
a harpist as soloists,
Heh, heh! My association of Sousa with marching bands made me spit my
tea when the image of a marching harpist popped up in your discourse! I
was already musing on marching bassoons, and how much I hate marching
with a tuba, or the infinitely worse sousaphone, which is at least twice
as heavy.
Sousa's band didn't march more than a couple of times. At least his
civilian band. The Marine Band marched, and the band he led in WWI at
the Great Lakes Naval Training Center marched, but his civilian band
mostly just played concerts.
--
David H. Bailey
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