The bell from the S.S. John Philip Sousa, a World War II Liberty ship, is there. In 1976, Sousa was enshrined in the Hall of Fame for Great Americans in a ceremony at the John F. Kennedy Center ...

At 13, John Philip Sousa, like many boys of his day ... However, his military service continued. During World War I, Sousa enlisted with the U.S. Naval Reserves as a lieutenant, with a salary ...

For many, summer celebrations would be nothing without hearing John Philip Sousa’s The Stars ... In 1914 America joined World War I and Sousa, 62, enlisted in the Naval Reserve.

An earlier version of this story incorrectly reported that the Marine Band Birthday Concert is Sunday at 10 a.m. The concert is Saturday, Nov. 9, at 10 a.m. at the Marine Corps War Memorial in ...

NEW YORK, April 29 (UPI) -- "The Glassblowers," a forgotten light opera by March King John Philip Sousa, has been revived ... work appropriate for a nation at war. Written in 1909, "The ...

What Scott Joplin did for ragtime and Jelly Roll Morton for jazz, John Philip ... World War I in 1917, the United States Navy asked for his help in fund-raising, commissioning Sousa as lieutenant ...

Jane van Middlesworth Sousa, ca. 1880s. Scott Schwartz John Philip Sousa at the Great Lakes Naval Training Center in 1917. Sigmund 'The Great Lafayette' Neuberger as John Philip Sousa in 1911.

Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., for the John Philip Sousa Festival, held Thursday through Sunday. “Being selected to perform at the Kennedy Center is an incredible ...

John Philip Sousa ... reputation. Mr. Sousa was born in Washington in 1854. The fact that his father was a musician and a member of the Marine Band which his son was later to lead, combined with the ...

You are listening to the most famous, and perhaps most frequently played piece of American music ever written, John Phillip Sousa’s The ... the Spanish-American War. Patriotic fever was soaring.