{"id":568,"date":"2014-06-27T23:01:41","date_gmt":"2014-06-27T23:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archives.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/?p=568"},"modified":"2024-05-22T20:09:24","modified_gmt":"2024-05-22T20:09:24","slug":"568","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/2014\/06\/27\/568\/","title":{"rendered":"University of Illinois&#8217; Alma Mater Welcomes Flat Sousa to Campus"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4350\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4350\" style=\"width: 221px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/99\/2024\/05\/Flat-Sousa-with-University-of-Illinois-Alma-Mater.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4350\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/99\/2024\/05\/Flat-Sousa-with-University-of-Illinois-Alma-Mater-221x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"221\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/99\/2024\/05\/Flat-Sousa-with-University-of-Illinois-Alma-Mater-221x300.jpg 221w, https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/99\/2024\/05\/Flat-Sousa-with-University-of-Illinois-Alma-Mater.jpg 424w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 221px) 100vw, 221px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4350\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elaine Li, University Bands Librarian, introduces Flat Sousa to the University\u2019s Alma Mater<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">John Philip Sousa and the Sousa Band performed eleven times in Urbana, Illinois between February 8, 1908 and October 14, 1930, and nine of those concerts were held at the University of Illinois.\u00a0 The other two concerts were performed at Urbana&#8217;s Illinois Theatre. \u00a0 Through A. Austin Harding\u00a0 the University of Illinois Band enjoyed a close personal and professional relationship with John Philip Sousa. In the 1920s Sousa dubbed the University of Illinois Band \u201cthe world&#8217;s greatest college concert band,\u201d and on March 20, 1930 the Illinois band performed a concert with Sousa as its guest conductor.\u00a0 During this performance Sousa dedicated his &#8220;University of Illinois March&#8221; to the institution\u2019s faculty, students and alumni. After his death in March 1932 Sousa had his band&#8217;s entire performance library of original compositions bequeathed to the University because he believed Harding\u2019s band was the only band in the country that he consider equal to his own band.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Philip Sousa and the Sousa Band performed eleven times in Urbana, Illinois between February 8, 1908 and October 14, 1930, and nine of those concerts were held at the University of Illinois.\u00a0 The other two concerts were performed at Urbana&#8217;s Illinois Theatre. \u00a0 Through A. Austin Harding\u00a0 the University of Illinois Band enjoyed a [&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-568","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\/568","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=568"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4722,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568\/revisions\/4722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}