“March music is for the feet, not for the head.” So said America’s greatest composer of marches – John Philip Sousa (1854-1932). He should know. He wrote over one hundred of them. And, although he wrote other forms of music, much of it very good music in its own right, it is for his marches that his name and his fame live on.

It was on the 14th of May, in 1897, that Sousa’s most famous and beloved march was first heard in public. Sousa tells the story of how the march came to be ...

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