There is a gentleman named Marcus Neiman who came and performed a Sousa concert with us. Marcus has a band called the Sounds of Sousa
Sounds of Sousa Home and he impersonates Sousa himself. He came to a few practices with our Community Concert band (
Mount Community Concert Band, Cincinnati, OH (The College of Mount St. Joseph)) and explained that when Sousa would perform a concert he would play a classical or light classical type selection and follow it immediately with one of his marches as a type of encore. At the concert he dressed up as Sousa and ran us through our list of concert selection + march. It was a good time and I think we've never had such a large or lively crowd since then.
The above link will get you to The Sounds of Sousa web site for more info. Our band The Mount Community Concert Band (Cincinnati, OH) also has a link above and there are some photo on the site at
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I'm in one of the pictures performing Bugler's Holiday, all the rest of the pictures were taken by me so I'm not present in most.
I find that I enjoy playing British Marches like "The British Eighth" because they're so different from the Sousa marches.