OCR Text |
Show O i IT HAS REQUIRED MANY YEARS TO MAKE SOUSA'S BAND. Years of practice and playing together to-gether as one man arc required to make a perfect band or orchestra. This is wherein Sousa's band has a prodigious advantage. There arc many instrumentalists in Sousa's Band who have played together al- most constantly for many years. Certain Cer-tain of them have played together for ten and twelve years, and a few for fifteen years; these form the Old t Guard, which, under the baton of John Philip Sousa himself . are the front and body of the finest organization organi-zation of its kind in the world. The organization now includes fifty-five fifty-five selected artists, including soloists. Sousa resigned frqm the United States Marine Service in April, 1892, was relieved the following July, and in September began the organization of Sousa's Band in New York, having re moved his family from Washington, D. C. to New York in August of the same year. The first tour by the new organization was made that season, sea-son, and for fifteen years Sousa has been almost constantly playing to the public of cither America or Europe, with what success a'l the world knows. A single American tour once covered cover-ed thirty thousand miles distance, the expense of which reached the r.nor-nous r.nor-nous sum of One Hundred and Fifty Thousand Dollars, and yet the lour yielded a comfortable fortune in net profits. This, the most unique and original of all band organizations, is now on its ninth transcontinental (thirty-first semi-annual) tour, and is coming this way. The soloists ane Miss Lucy Allen, soprano; Miss Jennette Powers, vio-liniste, vio-liniste, and Mr. Herbert L. Clarke, the famous cornet virtuoso. The dates arc Monday and Tuesday when four of Sousa's best programs will be given at the Tabernacle afternoon after-noon nad night. |