Klarinet Archive - Posting 000814.txt from 2003/05

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Mr. Sousa and the Eb Clarinet
Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 06:17:19 -0400

At 10:22 AM 5/30/2003 +0100, Anthony Wakefield wrote:
>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suggests that there is still some of Sousa`s music unpublished, then there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.

Actually, I WAS able to hear the "Library of Congress March." It is a
different, and superior one.

>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.

The kind of brainpower they showed with that move pretty much explains WHY
they were just common thieves. That "worthless" paper they dumped out was
far more valuable than the container!

Bill Hausmann

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

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