{"id":2325,"date":"2019-10-01T14:33:01","date_gmt":"2019-10-01T14:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archives.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/?p=2325"},"modified":"2024-05-22T17:46:00","modified_gmt":"2024-05-22T17:46:00","slug":"new-sousa-exhibit-opens-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/2019\/10\/01\/new-sousa-exhibit-opens-today\/","title":{"rendered":"New Sousa Exhibit Opens Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/99\/2024\/05\/John-Philip-Sousa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-4394 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/99\/2024\/05\/John-Philip-Sousa-209x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"209\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/99\/2024\/05\/John-Philip-Sousa-209x300.jpg 209w, https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/99\/2024\/05\/John-Philip-Sousa.jpg 414w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 209px) 100vw, 209px\" \/><\/a>The Center&#8217;s new exhibit, &#8220;John Philip Sousa &#8212; America\u2019s Legacy through his Music&#8221; opens today, and presents many of the March King&#8217;s original hand-written full scores that are rarely seen by the general public.\u00a0 Sousa (1854-1932) is one of America\u2019s most recognized composers and bandleaders, and much of his music reflects his unflagging patriotism and musical response to major national and international events that affected the country during his lifetime.\u00a0 He wrote over 336 original compositions, and arranged and transcribed an additional 322 works, many of which he produced while on his band\u2019s numerous tours.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sousa was not only the creator of America\u2019s most recognized marches, but also a master of grand theatrical entertainment through them.\u00a0 He is credited with transforming the simple repetitive <em>da capo<\/em> form of early march melodies into much more dramatic trio forms.\u00a0 His most popular marches <em>\u2013 The Stars and Stripes Forever, The Liberty Bell, and the Invincible Eagle<\/em> \u2013 reflect these changes in style, where dramatic contrasts between woodwind solos and energetic low-brass <em>ritornellos<\/em> give way to rousing lyrical finales that always energized concert audiences.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This exhibit of original scores highlights some of these composition techniques used by Sousa, and documents the historical events that inspired the March King to craft these works.\u00a0 For further information about this exhibit email the Sousa Archives and Center for American Music at <a href=\"mailto:sousa@illinois.edu\">sousa@illinois.edu.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Center&#8217;s new exhibit, &#8220;John Philip Sousa &#8212; America\u2019s Legacy through his Music&#8221; opens today, and presents many of the March King&#8217;s original hand-written full scores that are rarely seen by the general public.\u00a0 Sousa (1854-1932) is one of America\u2019s most recognized composers and bandleaders, and much of his music reflects his unflagging patriotism and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2325"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4582,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2325\/revisions\/4582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}