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After a noon barbecue, members of the orchestra and some of the crew of his special train banded themselves into a "Sad Symphony" of toy ukuleles, kazoos and slide whistles to play satiric take-offs on Wagner, Kabalevsky and Sousa. A waiter sang Ol' Man River and a porters' quartet turned to on Down by the Old Mill Stream, Finally, at his musicians' urging, the 83-year-old little perfectionist stood up to conduct them himself in shirtsleeves and beret. "That was a little out of tune, Maestro," grinned a trumpeter, afterward. Toscanini beamed happily: "Well...
John Phillip Sousa must have been born on a Saturday afternoon in the spring time, for his music never sounded better. When the Band played "that song about the monkey," the little boy in the second row squirmed off his mother's lap, picked up an abandoned umbrella and started to march. "I won't be a garbage collector after all," he said. An old man took off his black hat and wiped his forehead with his handkerchief; his newspaper fell off the chair but he didn't notice...
...Called "Up the Street," the new album will contain Harvard, Sousa, and other popular marches. Cuttings include "Our Director," "Up the Street," "Stars and Stripes Forever," and "Semper Fidelis...
Manhattan's Luchow's Restaurant, a favorite hangout of Teddy Roosevelt and Jenny Lind, where Diamond Jim Brady went for bearnaise sauce, Enrico Caruso for pigs' knuckles and John Philip Sousa for imported frankfurters, was sold by Proprietor Victor Eckstein (an heir of Founder August Luchow) for about $500,000. Although the restaurant will carry on under new management, Oldtimer H. L. Mencken mourned: "It's the end of civilization...
Even Dixielander Bob Crosby, who had given up his loud brass and fast beat after the war because "guys are sick and tired of jump stuff," was back on board. Last week he and his Bobcats were together again to record Dixieland versions of Sousa's The Stars and Stripes Forever and Washington Post, which would have sounded almost natural coming over the tail gate of an oldtime New Orleans jazz wagon. "People are tired of love songs and weepy ballads," said Bob. "They want happy music...