Newspapers, we all agree, are not what they were. The thing we don't agree on is why. Is it the internet? Or the decline in reading? Is it because reporters are biased? Or because reporters are so ...

CHICAGO — What Scott Joplin did for ragtime and Jelly Roll Morton for jazz, John Philip Sousa achieved for another expression of the American spirit: the march. More than that, he nurtured and ...

The W.D. Packard Concert Band is taking its “March” concert literally. Sunday’s performance will focus on the marches composed by John Philip Sousa, and each song will be directed by a Packard Band ...

What Scott Joplin did for ragtime and Jelly Roll Morton for jazz, John Philip Sousa achieved for another expression of the American spirit – the march. But unlike Joplin and Morton, who helped create ...

Sousa’s “The Stars and Stripes Forever” is America’s national march, as voted by Congress in 1987. Celebrating The Fourth With John Philip Sousa's Iconic Marches John Philip Sousa’s “The Stars and ...

Few know the lyrics, but as opening notes sound on this Fourth of July, folks will rise from picnic blankets and bleachers. Hats will come off. Miniature flags will wave. “The Stars and Stripes ...

Charles Van Middlesworth III, Tonganoxie High School band director, shown conducting, is taking part in Leavenworth's John Philip Sousa Star Spangled Spectacular. Schedule for the two-day John Philip ...

LIMA — The Lima Area Concert Band’s second subscription series, “Salute To Sousa,” will be held at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at Veterans Memorial Civic Center. John Philip Sousa is known as the “March King.” ...