LXVII. SOUSA, John Philip (1854-1932)
Nobles of the Mystic Shrine (1923)
San Jose Wind Symphony
Edward C. Harris, cond.
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Sousa was a fine composer, as well as an expert trap-shooter and he also wrote novels.
A Masonic society established in 1870, the Shriners shortened the name of their organization from the previously elaborate Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine (AAONMS).
Would be hard to get all that on one of those little cars.
He wanted the tubas to project their sound, so in 1873 he convinced J.W. Pepper to make it -- the sousaphone:
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