John Philip Sousa plays John Philip Sousa - "Amoureuse Waltz"

[jimjiminy2001]

Thank you for sharing such a wonderful treasure.

[Cowboycurtis888]

This isn't a Sousa Piece though...it's the Sousa BAND.

[VinylToVideo]

It must be just Sousa's arrangement or something because it says "(Sousa)" underneath the title which means they're saying he is the composer. You're probably right, I'm quite sure he didn't write this although he did compose some waltzes. Which ones, I have no clue.

[DMAlterman]

@Cowboycurtis888

The composer is listed as "Berger" in Wikipedia, music of 1905.

[ViktorDragmire]

What turntable is that? is it electric and does it have a headphones-plug?

[VinylToVideo]

It's a Dual 1214. Is it electric? No, it's helium powered. And no it doesn't have a headphone plug although the receiver it's connected with does.

[DwayneMadsen]

Those come with a nuclear power option, too, if I am not mistaken. Make sure you take the plug pattern with you or you will never get the right one for the flux capacitor.

[vaibanez17]

John Philip Sousa was strongly opposed to recording music because he felt it would take away from musical integrity and dumb down our society musically. He felt that every live performance of a group was special and unique and that recordings were the same everytime and didn't challenge people to think and feel. He actually went and spoke to Congress about banning recording of music on 78's and wax cylinders. Im actually shocked to stumble upon any real recordings of Sousa's band b/c of that.

[VinylToVideo]

Perhaps Sousa had visions of what music would be like in the future.

[vaibanez17]

Yeah but he was wrong, if people hadn't recorded themselves playing music in the years after his death, we'd have lost some extremely valuable music of alltime like Robert Johnson's Crossroads and Django Reinhardt's Nuages...I think Sousa felt if you recorded a concert then everytime you listened to it it would never change and it didn't give you the real feeling of a live show...maybe if he'd seen the future of technology he'd have had different feelings about recording...the better quality

[VinylToVideo]

Of course he was wrong but look at the music recorded today. It certainly "take[s] away from musical integrity and dumb[s] down our society musically."

[vaibanez17]

Thats a pretty post hoc statement...you and i both know that recording music is not the reason that music is suffering from creativity...it's because of a mixture of cultural and popularity trends which favored thinking less started by the grunge music scene where music was stripped of it's music entirely in favor of lyrical based music in which instrumentation fell out of favor, but blame that on the glam metal scene which killed music to begin with...

[Keeper1st]

The statement to which you respond is along the lines of what Sousa had said about what recorded sound would do to music. He said it would allow the worst of music to be preserved forever, whereas previously only the best music would stand the test of time through continued demand for performance and sheet music. His actual words were much better than that, but I don't remember what they were exactly. They were quoted at a recent seminar about early music recording.

[MrXnews]

@vaibanez17 Sousa died in the 1930s, and he was quite entusiastic about electrical recording.

[vaibanez17]

@MrXnews "Sousa's antipathy to recording was such that he occasionally refused to conduct his band if it was being recorded. Nevertheless, Sousa's band made numerous recordings for the Victor Talking Machine Company (later RCA Victor), usually conducted by Arthur Pryor." That is directly from his Wikipedia, which is often not reliable about things, but in this case it's true...he hated recording and the idea that people could listen to music without coming out to see the people playing it.

[MrXnews]

@vaibanez17 Wikipedia also says (in the Victor Orthophonic Victrola article, NY Times quote):

"John Philip Sousa [said] "Gentlemen [sic], that is a band. This is the first time I have ever heard music with any soul to it produced by a mechanical talking machine." ... The new instrument is a feat of mathematics and physics..." etc.

[Keeper1st]

While Sousa despised "canned music" (and he coined that term -- music cylinders were sold in cans), he allowed his band to record. My understanding, however, is that he took no part in the recording sessions. The early recordings of Sousa's band (I know of one from 1898) probably had Arthur Pryor in charge. I'm not sure who would have been in charge of the band for this 1912 recording.

[ctmale1956]

So very true.

[daisenseiciccone]

awesome!

John Philip Sousa was an exceptional musician and composer.