4th JULY CELEBRATION - THE WASHINGTON POST MARCH - John Philip Sousa - organ cover by Gareth Giles скачать в хорошем качестве

4th JULY CELEBRATION - THE WASHINGTON POST MARCH - John Philip Sousa - organ cover by Gareth Giles

To mark July 4th, I hope you will enjoy my organ cover of the famous, rousing 'WASHINGTON POST MARCH' by John Philip Sousa...the March King. All the July 2024 uploads find me seated at the organ of ST MARK'S CHURCH SURBITON. For several years in the late 1980s I was assistant organist at this church and it has been great fun to revisit the church and its instrument. The ORGAN at St Marks was installed by the Mander Organ Company in 1960 - at the same time as the reconsecration of the church following its bombing during WWII. It is a 3-manual instrument with 64 speaking stops that was built largely from pipework from a house organ. There have been a few extensions and modifications, and amongst its many colours, it has a small, detached West End organ, and an extremely forceful Tuba stop (which in my time in post there was 'only to be pulled on the rarest of occasions' by decree of a rather bossy member of the congregation who took delight in coming to push the stop in if he heard it being used when he didn't approve! You can hear me playing other organs in this playlist:    • ORGAN MUSIC   THE WASHINGTON POST MARCH was composed in 1889 and was commissioned by The Washington Post newspaper, which had come under new ownership the previous year. In order to celebrate and announce this, they asked Sousa - the leader of the United States Marine Band to compose them a piece for an awards ceremony where it premiered on June 15 1889 with president Benjamin Harrison in attendance. It quickly became popular in the US and Europe along with the rise of the late 19th century dance craze - the 2-step. In 6/8 compound duple, it has a standard March structure and jaunts along in G major at 120 bpm JOHN PHILIP SOUSA completed his apprenticeship as a violinist of the US Marine bands in 1875 and began performing on the violin. He then joined a theatrical pit orchestra where he learned to conduct. Sousa returned to the Marine Band as its head in 1880 and remained as its conductor until 1892. He led "The President's Own" band under five presidents from Rutherford B. Hayes to Benjamin Harrison. Sousa's band played at the inaugural balls of James A. Garfield in 1881 and Benjamin Harrison in 1889.He became known as the March King for the many (some 130) Military Marches that he composed during his lifetime, including: the Liberty Bell, Star and Stripes forever and The Washington Post. The 'Sousaphone' was developed as an adapted Tuba at the behest of Sousa to allow a manageable Bass instrument for Marching and its sound to project to the front of the band to aid timekeeping. Thank you for watching - Gareth Please: LIKE COMMENT SHARE SUBSCRIBE