Sousa also composed the music for six operettas that were either unfinished or not produced: The Devils ' Deputy, Florine, The Irish Dragoon, Katherine, The Victory, and The Wolf.

*" Hands Across the Sea "-John Philip Sousa, composed 1899

*" The Liberty Bell "-John Philip Sousa, composed 1893

*" Stars and Stripes Forever "-John Philip Sousa, composed December 25, 1896

*" The Washington Post March "-John Philip Sousa, composed 1889

The newspaper is also known as the namesake of " The Washington Post March ", which John Phillip Sousa composed in 1889 while he was leading the United States Marine Band ; it became the standard music to accompany the two-step, a late 19th-century dance craze.

" The Liberty Bell " ( 1893 ) is an American military march composed by John Philip Sousa.

The U. S. Marine Band's most famous conductor is undoubtedly John Philip Sousa, who composed many of the most famous American marches, as well as several musical comedies.

*" Semper Fidelis " is also the title of the official march of the United States Marine Corps, composed by John Philip Sousa in 1889.

It is among a number of songs associated with the institution, including the Minnesota March, which was composed for the University by John Philip Sousa.

Hands Across the Sea is a military march composed in 1899 by John Philip Sousa.

In his autobiography, Marching Along, Sousa wrote that he composed the march on Christmas Day 1896.

" The Washington Post " is a march composed by John Philip Sousa in 1889.

John Phillip Sousa regularly visited Congress Hall with the U. S. Marine Band and composed the " Congress Hall March ," which he conducted on the lawn in the summer of 1882.

The anthem, adopted in 1975, was written by Alda Neves da Graça do Espírito Santo and composed by Manuel dos Santos Barreto de Sousa e Almeida.

* El Capitan ( operetta ), an operetta composed by John Philip Sousa in 1896

This category contains staff members of the namesake newspaper, managers and businesses of the namesake company, and other articles directly related to the newspaper ( e. g., The Washington Post march, composed by John Philip Sousa, is included because the newspaper commissioned the composition ).

Sousa composed several of his finest marches, including Semper Fidelis, while serving as director of the Marine Band.

Sousa composed " The Fairest of the Fair " in 1908, intending the Sousa Band to perform it at the annual Boston Food Fair in the fall of that year.

The great American band master John Phillip Sousa composed his famous march, King Cotton, for the exposition, and dedicated it to the people of the state of Georgia.

* 1930 – A bloodless coup d ' état in Brazil ousts Washington Luís Pereira de Sousa, the last President of the First Republic.

* 1869 – Washington Luís Pereira de Sousa, President of Brazil ( d. 1957 )

John Philip Sousa was born in Washington, D. C., on November 6, 1854, to John Antonio Sousa and Maria Elisabeth Trinkhaus.

A school ( John Philip Sousa Elementary ) and a band shell are named after him and there is also a memorial tree planted in nearby Port Washington.

The most famous 6 / 8 March is probably The Washington Post March, also by Sousa.

Marches that commonly have the first playing of the second strain quiet and the second loud include The Stars and Stripes Forever, His Honor, The Washington Post, Hands Across the Sea, On the Mall, and a load of others, particularly by Sousa.

* " The Washington Post ( march )" m. John Philip Sousa

Henry died on 13 May 1878, and was buried in Oak Hill Cemetery in the Georgetown section of northwest Washington, D. C. John Phillips Sousa wrote the Transit of Venus March for the unveiling of the Joseph Henry statue in front of the Smithsonian Castle.

Washington native John Philip Sousa was conductor of the U. S. Marine Band from 1880 to 1892.

Beginning in late 1949, a group of parents from the Anacostia neighborhood of Washington, DC, calling themselves the Consolidated Parents Group, petitioned the Board of Education of the District of Columbia to open the nearly completed John Phillip Sousa Junior High as an integrated school.

John Philip Sousa conducted music, including " Foshay Tower – Washington Memorial March " a march he wrote for the occasion.

In 1889 owners of The Washington Post newspaper requested that John Philip Sousa, the leader of the United States Marine Corps Band, compose a march for the newspaper's essay contest awards ceremony.

Sousa obliged ; " The Washington Post March " was introduced at the ceremony on June 15, 1889, and it became quite popular.

" Sousa is honored in The Washington Post building for his contribution to the newspaper and his country.

Opening bars, first strain, Sousa, " The Washington Post "

Washington Luís Pereira de Sousa (; 26 October 1869 – 4 August 1957 ) was a Brazilian politician.

Luis Pereira de Sousa, Washington

Luis Pereira de Sousa, Washington

Luis Pereira de Sousa, Washington

Luis Pereira de Sousa, Washington

Sousa wanted a tuba that would send sound upward and over the band with a full warm tone, much like a concert ( upright ) tuba, an effect which could not be achieved with the more directional hélicon bell position.

Contrary to popular belief, the sousaphone was not initially developed as a marching instrument, as the professional band Sousa started after leaving the Marines ( for which he wanted this new instrument ) marched only once in its existence.

Rather, Sousa wanted a concert instrument which would be easier to hold and play, while retaining a full, rich sound.

# " Merry-Go-Round Music " medley ( traditional )-" Listen to the Mocking Bird " was the only portion of this track that was actually used in the film, along with the second segment of " King Cotton ", a Sousa march, which was not on the album

A similar episode occurred later when Coelho de Sousa seized the house of a wealthy foreign resident in Jinzhou of Fujian, which led authorities to cut off supplies to the Portuguese ; the Portuguese then attacked and ransacked a nearby village for supplies, which prompted Chinese authorities to destroy thirteen of their ships while thirty Portuguese survivors of this settlement fled to the Portuguese settlement at Macau in 1549.

The course of her life had changed when, aged 16, she got a job as a waitress at the Alexandra Palace so that she could see the composer John Philip Sousa, but she overheard two gentlemen discussing the loss of a target for an act in which they shot an apple off a girl ’ s head.

The governor, João Correia de Sousa, never gained the advantage at the meeting and agreed to her terms, which resulted in a treaty on equal terms.

A famous story says that in her meeting with the Portuguese governor, João Correia de Sousa did not offer a chair to sit on during the negotiations, and, instead, had placed a floor mat for her to sit, which in Mbundu custom was appropriate only for subordinates.

In that same year, Sousa Mendes married his childhood sweetheart, Maria Angelina Ribeiro de Abranches ( born August 20, 1888 ); they eventually had fourteen children, born in the various countries in which he served.

In 1994 former President Soares dedicated a bust of Sousa Mendes in Bordeaux, along with a commemorative plaque at 14 quai Louis-XVIII, the address at which the consulate at Bordeaux had been housed.

His most outstanding play is " Frei Luís de Sousa " ( 1844 ), which became a classic of Portuguese theatre.

The Sousa Archives and Center for American Music at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign holds the WGN Radio Station Studio Orchestra Music Library and Records, 1925-1956, which consists of scripts, programs, production notes, correspondence, music library rental records, sheet music manuscripts, and music scores with annotations that document the WGN Studio Symphonic Orchestra from the 1925 to 1956.

In 1597, after some years during which French pirates, led by Jacques Riffault, established regular commercial activities with the native population, the ninth Portuguese Governor-General of Brazil, Francisco de Sousa, ordered the expulsion of the buccaneers.

Anxious to find a national drama, he chose subjects from Portuguese history and, beginning with " An Auto of Gil Vicente ", produced a series of prose plays which culminated in " Brother Luiz de Sousa ", a masterpiece.

Faria e Sousa notes they may not have reached their destination, but may have ended up instead on an Atlantic Ocean island " populated by Portuguese, that has seven cities ... which some imagine to be that one which can be seen from Madeira, but when they wish to reach it, disappears ".

The commercial, which ran 120 seconds, showed Ben Vereen and two other dancers ( Candy Brown and Pamela Sousa who were in the chorus of the show ) in the instrumental dance sequence from " Glory ".

The Sousa Archives and Center for American Music holds the Bruno Nettl Papers, 1966-1988, which consists of administrative and personal correspondence while Nettl was a professor and head of the Musicology Division for the University of Illinois School of Music.

The region is intersected by several rivers and valley creeks including Ribeira Funda ( the Deep Ravine ), Ribeira Pinheiro ( Pine Ravine ) and Ribeira Sousa ( Sousa Ravine, named after one of the original settlers ), which are usually dry throughout most of the year.