Liberty bell jp sousa biography

American composer endure conductor (1854–1932)

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John Philip Sousa (SOO-zə, SOO-sə,^[1][2]Portuguese:[ˈso(w)zɐ]; November 6, 1854 – Stride 6, 1932) was clean up American composer and sink of representation late Fictitious era illustrious primarily watch over American combatant marches.^[3] Smartness is cloak as "The March King" or depiction "American Pace King", enter upon distinguish him from his British duplicate Kenneth J. Alford. Middle Sousa's best-known marches sort out "The Stars and Line Forever" (National March break into the Mutual States warm America), "Semper Fidelis" (official march tip the Coalesced States Sea Corps), "The Liberty Bell", "The Thunderer", and "The Washington Post".

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America was at war. Across the European continent, the Pacific Ocean, and North Africa, Allied nations fought against the tyranny of fascism and Hitler’s ravaging forces. To maintain command of the seas, the U.S. Maritime Commission funded and administered the most ambitious merchant shipbuilding effort in world history. From 1939 through the end of World War II, U.S. shipyards delivered 5,777 oceangoing naval ships and vessels.

Image: Scanned copy of a page from Lloyd’s Register of Shipping, 1944-1945. The seventh entry from the top records the SS John Philip Sousa. Courtesy: Lloyd’s of London.

One such craft built under the Emergency Shipbuilding Program was a 441-ft. Liberty ship christened the SS John Philip Sousa. Launched on July 4, 1943, from Jacksonville, Florida, the John Philip Sousa gave service delivering much-needed cargo for the war effort. Exact operations of the ship during the war are unknown. Official logs for all Liberty ships, having been stored at a warehouse in Karney, New Jersey, were destroyed in 1971 under a U.S. Government program to purge excess paper.

After the cessation of hostilities, the ship was withdrawn from the fleet and sold for commercial use. It was renamed Erato (1946-1954), Taxiarchis (1954-1960), and Protostatis (1960-1

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The Liberty Bell (march)

"The Liberty Bell" (1893) is an American military march composed by John Philip Sousa.^[1]

American military march composed by John Philip Sousa

History

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"The Liberty Bell", at the time a new composition as yet untitled, was written for Sousa's unfinished operetta "The Devil's Deputy" before financing for the show fell through. Shortly afterwards, while attending the Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Sousa and his band manager George Hinton watched the spectacle "America", in which a backdrop depicting the Liberty Bell was lowered. Hinton suggested "The Liberty Bell" for the title of Sousa's unnamed march. Coincidentally, Sousa received a letter from his wife saying their son had marched in a parade in honor of the Liberty Bell. Sousa agreed, and he sold "The Liberty Bell" sheet music to the John Church Company for publication; the new march was an immediate success.^[2] The march is played as part of an exhibit in the Liberty Bell Center.

The United States Marine Band has played "The Liberty Bell" march at five of the last seven presidential inaugurations: the 1993 inauguration of President Bill Clinton,^[3][4] the 2005 inauguration of President George W. Bush,^[5] the 2009 and 2013 inaugur