Klarinet Archive - Posting 000813.txt from 2003/05

From: "Anthony Wakefield" <tony-w@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] Mr. Sousa and the Eb Clarinet
Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 05:22:54 -0400

Bill Hausmann relates:
> In a concert a couple of weeks ago, an all-Sousa program, the Bay Concert
> Band (Bay City, MI) played a Sousa march called "March: Untitled." It was
> published in the 1990's I believe, after the long missing first page of
the
> score was discovered among a pile of Sousa's papers. Actually, it was
> LITERALLY a pile, as the were stored in a trunk, and burglars broke in and
> dumped the papers out because they wanted to steal the TRUNK!!! It won't
> replace "Stars and Stripes Forever" but it has its moments, and the trio
> does have some high clarinet and piccolo noodling, and there are juicy
> parts for the trombones in the dogfight section. Perhaps this is the
march
> to which you refer?

The Library of Congress URL in my follow up to discover this, shows a 'new'
march titled (by someone else?) 'The Library of Congress March'. I tried to
listen to this - it`s a lively march but my playback broke up several times
so I gave up. I suppose the 'March: Untitled' could very well be one and the
same march, now taken up by the Library of Congress, but as someone else
suggests that there is still some of Sousa`s music unpublished, then there
could be some doubt.
I loved the story of thieves who scattered Sousa`s music over all the place
just to steal the trunk the music was being stored in. All my music is
stored on the floor in piles, so I can probably guarantee it won`t get
distured for centuries.
Tony W.

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