Klarinet Archive - Posting 000203.txt from 2004/05

From: "Dan Leeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] The Transit of Venus March of John Phillip Sousa
Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 16:49:07 -0400

The following item is for Sousa lovers, as am I.

The Library of Congress and its Music Division join with NASA in
celebrating the first "transit of Venus" to take place since
December 6,
1882. On Tuesday, June 8, 2004 between 1:13 A.M. (EDT) and 7:35
A.M.
(EDT), the silhouette of Venus will pass in front of the Sun.
[Please
see NASA's "Sun - Earth Day" Web site for more information on
this
phenomenon:
http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/sunearthday/2004/index_vthome.htm]

The Library is honoring this rare event by providing access on
its "I
Hear America Singing" [IHAS] Web site: http://www.loc.gov/ihas/
to the
newly arranged score and band parts of John Philip Sousa's
"Transit of
Venus March":
http://memory.loc.gov/cocoon/ihas/html/venus/venus-home.html.

First published in 1883, the new arrangement of this march was
created
in 2004 by Loras Schissel of the Library's Music Division. In
addition
to this arrangement, which can be printed directly from the IHAS
Web
site, a sound recording, sheet music from 1896, band parts from
1883 and
1902, and other songs relating to the transit of Venus are
available.

The Library of Congress's I Hear American Singing Web site
http//www.loc.gov/rr/perform/ihas/ invites visitors to experience
the
diversity of American performing arts through the Library of
Congress's
unsurpassed collections of scores, sheet music, audio recordings,
films,
photographs, maps, and other materials.

Dan Leeson
dnleeson@-----.net

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