Marching Band Composer and writer John Philip Sousa, the March King, died in Reading's Abraham Lincoln Hotel in 1932.

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.

Sousa wrote it in 1886 at the request of President Chester A. Arthur who died before it was performed.

* March 18-Manuel de Faria e Sousa, historian and poet ( died 1649 )

He has two younger siblings, António Carvalho Pinto de Sousa, born circa 1962, and Ana Maria Carvalho Pinto de Sousa, died in 1988.

After bishop António Álvares Pereira de Sousa visited the community in 1690, and after having agreed to elevate the community to parish he died, and the decision was delayed.

Sousa felt confident enough at this point to declare Nzinga deposed and convened some sobas who had supported her to re-elect as new king Hari a Kiluanji, lord of the rocky fortress of Mpungo a Ndongo ( or Pungo Andongo ) in 1626, but he died in the smallpox epidemic that broke out as a result of the war, and was replaced by Filipe Hari a Ngola.

Sousa died on August 9, 1997, following complications after contracting HIV and Hepatitis C.

He married three times, firstly in 1964 to Maria Fernanda de Carvalho de Sá Dantas, secondly in 1985 to Clara Crabbé da Rocha ( daughter of Miguel Torga ) and thirdly in 1987 to Maria do Rosário Bandeira de Lima de Sousa Machado ( b. c. 1951 ), former and first wife of António Carlos Guerra Raposo de Magalhães, who died in 2004 ).

Henry Hall Wilson, a student at the music camp 25 years ago and now on the President's staff as liaison representative with the House of Representatives, turned guest conductor for a Sousa march, the `` Stars and Stripes Forever ''.

The sousaphone was developed in the 1890s at the request of John Philip Sousa, who was unhappy with the hélicons used at that time by the United States Marine Band.

Sousa started his music education by playing the violin as a pupil of John Esputa and George Felix Benkert ( born 1831 ) for harmony and musical composition at the age of six.

The Sousa Band toured from 1892 – 1931, performing at 15, 623 concerts.

The marching brass bass, or sousaphone, a modified helicon, was created by J. W. Pepper – a Philadelphia instrument maker who created the instrument in 1893 at Sousa ’ s request using several of his suggestions in its design.

Sousa served in the U. S. Marine Corps, first from 1868 to 1875 as an apprentice musician, and then as the head of the Marine Band from 1880 to 1892 ; he was a Sergeant Major for most of his second period of Marine service and was a Warrant Officer at the time he resigned.

John Philip Sousa led the Marine Corps band at the inaugural parade and ball.

On the Asiatic mainland the first trading stations were established by Pedro Álvares Cabral at Cochin and Calicut ( 1501 ); more important were the conquests of Goa ( 1510 ) and Malacca ( 1511 ) by Afonso de Albuquerque, and the acquisition of Diu ( 1535 ) by Martim Afonso de Sousa.

Cyrene was founded in 630 BC as a settlement of Greeks from the Greek island of Thera ( Santorini ), traditionally led by Battus I, at a site ten miles from its associated port, Apollonia ( Marsa Sousa ).

There is extensive local theater, with many productions held at the large stone auditorium, built in the city's downtown in 1929 and inaugurated with a concert by John Phillip Sousa.

* John Philip Sousa conducted the Sousa Band on October 26, 1926 at the facility that became known as Slagle Auditorium in 1929.

The first Governor-General appointed by John III was Tomé de Sousa, who in 1549 founded the city of Bahia ( known at the time as São Salvador da Bahia de Todos os Santos, Holy Saviour of the Bay of All Saints ).

Sousa at first rejected his advances but Lincke was persistent.

However, three months later Sousa was again singing Frau Luna at the Apollo.

Lincke experienced another wave of success from Paris, leading to him spending many nights out on the social scene, leaving Sousa at home to attend to her maternal commitments.

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.

In 1554, Leonel de Sousa — a later Governor of Macau — established positive relations through an agreement with Cantonese authorities and in 1557 the Ming court finally gave consent for a permanent and official Portuguese trade base at Macau.

In 1940, Hirt went to Cincinnati, Ohio to study at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music with Dr. Frank Simon ( a former soloist with the John Philip Sousa Orchestra ).

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.

In 1530, an expedition led by Martim Afonso de Sousa arrived to patrol the entire coast, ban the French, and to create the first colonial villages, like São Vicente, at the coast.

When Sousa reached the age of 13, his father, a trombonist in the Marine Band, enlisted his son in the United States Marine Corps as an apprentice to keep him from joining a circus band.

Cassaro started his career at the age of 15, in 1985, as a design assistant for animated cartoons in the Maurício de Sousa studios.

He played his first solo with the Sousa Band at age 22 during the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893.

He left Lisbon on 7 April 1541 along with two other Jesuits and the new Viceroy Martim Afonso de Sousa, on board the Santiago.

* Ronald de Sousa ( U Toronto ) on Gossip

* December 25 – John Philip Sousa composes his magnum opus, the Stars and Stripes Forever, on Christmas Day.

The Sudler Trophy and Sudler Shields are awards bestowed each year by the John Philip Sousa Foundation on one university marching band and one high school marching band.

From 1880 until his death, Sousa began focusing exclusively on conducting and wrote marches during this time.

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

In addition, Sousa wrote a march based on themes from Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera The Mikado, the elegant overture Our Flirtations, a number of musical suites, etc.

They were able to escape because on June 20, 1940, they were issued visas by Aristides de Sousa Mendes, Portuguese consul in Bordeaux, France.

It continues within the city for, from the southeast corner of the Capitol grounds through the Capitol Hill neighborhood, and over the Anacostia River on the John Philip Sousa Bridge.

Notable attendees included John Philip Sousa, whose band performed on opening day and several times during the fair.

# " 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

*" Stars and Stripes Forever " ( Sousa )-on radio, turned on ( loudly ) by Harpo, who mistakes it for a safe

In the early 20th century The Hobart High School band won national Sousa band competitions under the direction of Dr. William Revelli, who later went on to lead the prestigious University of Michigan bands programs.

The Thomas Dodge Homestead, Execution Rocks Light, Gould-Guggenheim Estate, Main Street School, Monfort Cemetery, Sands-Willets Homestead, and John Philip Sousa House are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

On LP and on the recently out-of-print CD, it is coupled with works by George Gershwin, and ( on the CD ) Samuel Barber and John Philip Sousa.

* " Stars And Stripes Forever " m. John Philip Sousa ( Recorded on Berliner Records )

* " Hands Across The Sea March " ( m. John Philip Sousa )-Peerless Orchestra on Edison Records-Sousa's Band on Berliner Records