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...that in many parts of the world one does not need to buy a ?121-a-year TV license from the government in order to watch the Eurovision Song Contest and re-runs of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. When they look at me, I can hear the Sousa march playing in their heads, but they try to be sympathetic. London can indeed be bloody expensive, they say, but it's not so bad if one makes adjustments. Several of them avoid cabs, restaurants and first-run movies. Others get moldering drugstore sandwiches, or have transformed lunch into...
...DIED. ANTONIO SOUSA FRANCO, 61, leading Socialist candidate for Sunday's European Parliament election; of a heart attack suffered while campaigning; in Matosinhos, Portugal. As Portugal's Finance Minister, Sousa Franco helped usher in the nation's adoption of the euro...
...Harvard Band members, playing the Sousa march was an interesting change of pace, despite a busy Commencement week schedule...
...Mantello) beyond including a new song, Something Just Broke, written for the 1992 London version. It's a nice addition to a score that is (oddly, given the subject) one of Sondheim's most tuneful and accessible, with its stylistic echoes of American folk ballads, gospel hymns, Sousa-style marches and turn-of-the-century waltzes. Sondheim has little patience for the long-voiced criticism that many of his scores abandon melody for astringent experimentation. "I do what is required for each show," he says. Besides, melody is "a very tricky word," he says. "When someone says a tune...
...enthusiastically embraced all things American. He liked to boast that despite his Russian upbringing and European background (he had danced and choreographed in Germany, France, England and Denmark), ?I?m more American than anybody.? He set ballets to the music of Charles Ives, George Gershwin and John Philip Sousa. He choreographed dances for Hollywood movies (notably the Slaughter on Tenth Avenue sequence in On Your Toes, 1936) and Broadway musicals (including The Boys from Syracuse, 1938). He even famously devised a polka for the elephants in the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus...