Klarinet Archive - Posting 000800.txt from 2003/05

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Mr. Sousa and the Eb Clarinet
Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 22:11:55 -0400

At 08:53 PM 5/29/2003 -0400, melzerb46 wrote:
> >the Sousa Band
> >marched exactly four times. It was a concert band, not a marching band.
>
>So Mr. J.P. Sousa wrote marches for a concert band?
>Melinda

MOST of his marches, especially the later ones, were written more with
concert than marching applications in mind. Some even have HARP parts in them!

Bill Hausmann

If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is TOO LOUD!

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