John Phillip Sousa - Military Escort

[theotherguy245689]

gonna play this at triad middle school

[McCollumProductions]

euphonium player couldn't hit the high f's... Poor guy/girl :/

[MrUltimatezeldafan1]

This is Harold Bennett! I notice you put several other non-Sousa marches on here giving Sousa credit. You seem to be this type of person: "A march? Must be Sousa!" Sousa didn't write every march out there, you know.

[kangarooslam69]

i personally like how it sounds but i think its boring to play

[FerRod2113]

we are going to play this in Indio tamale festival well GO LAKESIDE!!!!!!!!

[anniepoo615]

Actually, in my high school band we played this piece once, and it said it was written by John Phillip Sousa....maybe it was a mistake, but evidently other schools have played the same thing.

[Hellfire918]

@anniepoo615 Most Military Marches tend to say they were written by Sousa, but a good majority of them weren't. Sousa's band may have played them cause remember back when Sousa was alive there was no extremely strict law on copy right like it is now, so bands/Composers tended to play each others songs with a few variations & call it their song. A good example of this happens with Jazz look at Swing Sing Swing, it was written by multiple artists & called multiple different names.

[Reissinator1]

we play it faster ...

[SuperMissVeronica]

haha we played this last year in our band concert, we got a 2 in districts.

[cullen1234able]

lol john phillip sousa DID NOT write this retard

[DETHANDREW]

Dynamic control is waaaaayyyyyy off! Otherwise, good job.

[MarilynMansonism]

This was my band's march. We played very excellent. We are the best in the state. and also play it much faster than these people are.

[MarilynMansonism]

This was my band's march. We played very excellent. We are the best in the state.

[CashDog911]

this is our march, middle school we are better though we more intanation

[trumpetSL08]

the band playing this sounds young :)

[Glinkaism1]

I love the chorus section in this march! I recall playing this in high school pep band. It's a great pep ban march. :)

[greatelitehero]

the band im in, in middle school. we are playing this song at our parade tmrw. love it!!!

[sweettino]

Beim Fanfarensolo in der Mitte verkackt das Tempo jedesmal

- they are not in tempo in the middle fanfare solo :=(

[Welcome2Brela]

My band in Brela, Croatia plays this since early 1990s

[ZIZI152]

We play this march much faster !?

[sandwich422]

i live in Norway, and on 17th of may (our national day) we play this song every year:D

[ClimbingGrl]

Yeah I know. It was kinda difficult in 5th grade but I had a second part, so yeah. But my new school's high school band can't get it for some reason? The trumpets also wreck the intro, so that school is just bad in general...

[Maixa02]

the flute, clarinet, tromb. i think only in trio>>>???

[ant6288]

@Maixa02 theres 1 A. Sax in the trio trombone sect. and flutes in the trio

[MYcarlFredrik]

A beautiful song! We play it in the school orchestra I play with.

[bfoster131]

Hennry Fillmore wrote this using his pen name of Harold Bennett.

[rmorecook]

Sousa did not write this but it is American

[ClimbingGrl]

Oh, come on trombones. Get that high F, I played this in 6th grade with a first part.

[ant6288]

@ClimbingGrl um so yeah that high F really isnt that hard to hit. this must be some bad trombones lol

[dennisderstyler]

schön schnel und sauber gespielt  only fantastic

[Cranequill]

Harold Bennett is the composer... XD We're playing this tomorrow night at the concert. Because 4th of July music is totally what you play at a Christmas concert. This asn "Of Dark Lords and Ancient Kings", which is a song about some guy dying because he left some princess at the top of a tower rather than save her. Right. On.

[k0smon]

Maybe the reason you don't hear it much is that it is considered to be a simple entry-level march.

[jeffey217]

got to play this and several other songs on a Europe trip

[Tigerfencer2003]

We played this every year for Memorial Day and 4th of July. The people LOVED this, especially our veterans. Without their sacrifice we would not be to enjoy the freedom we do. Freedom is NOT Free! Thank you Veterans for your service!

[daverowe]

And of course, Harold Bennett was a pen name for Henry Fillmore.

[k0smon]

dave: Didn't Fillmore use quite a few pen names?

[daverowe]

In a word, yes. This from Wikipedia: "Henry Fillmore wrote under a series of different names such as Harold Bennett, Ray Hall, Harry Hartley, Al Hayes, and the funniest, Henrietta Moore. The name that caused a conflict was Will Huff, because there was a Will Huff who composed marches and lived in his state and area."

[dudeman0501]

This is NOT John Phillip Sousa; it's Harold Bennett.

[NarodnieMstiteli]

Underplayed and unrecognized in the U.S.

[MontanaBarNone]

Good One! MORE JPS!