SOUSA El Capitan (1896) - "The President's Own" United States Marine Band
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- "The President's Own" United States Marine Band presents The Complete Marches of John Philip Sousa, a multi-year project to record and publish scores for all of Sousa's Marches. Sousa, known as "The March King," was director of the Marine Band from 1880 to 1892. Recording directed by Lieutenant Col. Jason K. Fettig. www.marineband....
After the widespread success of his operetta El Capitan, Sousa regrettably declined an offer of $100,000 for The Bride Elect, from which this march was extracted. The operetta soon passed from the musical scene, but the march was a favorite of bandsmen for many years to come.
The march was pieced together from various sections of the operetta. The principal theme was developed from the song, “Unchain the Dogs of War,” which ended Act II. The march was sometimes programmed by the Sousa Band under that title.
According to Frank Simon, cornetist of the Sousa Band from 1914 to 1920, “The Bride Elect” was among Sousa’s own favorites. He once referred to it as the best march he had ever written.
Paul E. Bierley, The Works of John Philip Sousa (Westerville, Ohio: Integrity Press, 1984), 44. Used by permission.
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No Sondheim fans in here?
It's brilliant how he mixed this piece wirh the Italian "Tarrantella" with a smidge of Laurel and Hardy to create "That's how I saved Roosevelt"
And the Washington Post
That was President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt, ladies and gentlemen, speaking to a crowd of supporters here in Miami's beautiful Bayfront Park. A group of notables are pressing in around the President-elect's car. There's Mayor Anton Cermak of Chicago...
There's been a shot! Ladies and gentlemen, there has been a shot! Wait, I can't see- No, Mr. Roosevelt is waving! He's all right! But Mayor Cermak has been hit! The police have somebody in custody. An immigrant-Giuseppe Zangara.
Ladies and gentlemen, we take you now to a group of eyewitnesses who will tell us what they saw!
Lucky I was there
There it is!
Playing this song for band and it’s the best thing I have ever played I love Sousa’s work
what instrument do you play
John Sousa is considered the king of marches. He is the most famous composer of American marches and one of the most famous marches in the world.He conducter the orchestra of the United States Marine Corps.Our American Pride.I'm proud to be American. The march"El Capitan" has become a standard work for brass bands as well as a gateway to other genres..from Chicago, Illinois.
The real king of marches is Herms Niel. The composer of 'Erika'.
This was included in my late dads tribute concert... I conducted an orchestra of 30... in front of my family and 300 friends of his xx
Love this one....more than Stars and Stripes! Really liked your soft dynamic on the second strain....beautiful!
Yes, JPS's band played most of his marches with a "deorchestrated" second strain first time through - percussion,trumpets & low brass would cut out, the remaining voices would play at mp and an octave lower. In addition to the great contrast, the musicians were relieved to give their lips a 15 second rest!
I've always personally thought El Capitan sounded better with the second strain played identically both times, though, as there's enough dynamic contrast within it to hold our interest. But apparently this is how JPS's band played it.
I go back many decades when I was a kid and lived in Portugal. In the 40's and 50's my father used to take me with him to the Soccer Games. In the intermission I recall the loudspeakers playing John Philip Sousa marches to the crowd in the stadium. Grew up loving Military Marches. Even today...on the 4th of July I play several of them.
After hearing k1 this hits differently
Same
POV: you got unentangled out of an advanced plague.
How is this relevant
@@rouxlsyySomewhat late to this, but this the melody of a sample that appeared in an album titled “Everywhere At The End of Time”. It’s a 6 and a half hour long album about dementia. On Stage 5, the first track, K1, uses a mandolin solo of this song near the end of the track.
@@dr.sebastion9305 ohh ok
When I was growing up, a local TV station here in Pittsburgh used this as the theme music for "Studio Wrestling" (so called because they held the matches in one of the station's studios before a live audience of about 100 or so) on Saturday afternoons.
When I was but a wee lad, my grandparents had an ancient player piano…the kind that had pedals that you had to pump with your feet to make it play.
On a long shelf above the piano, there were hundreds of “rolls”of music (these were hollow cylinders, with 50’ or more of paper wrapped around them, and the paper had various slots and holes cut into it, that you’d slide over another cylinder in the piano, and each slot/hole in the paper triggered little tines and gears that would play various notes on the piano.
And, every time we visited my grandparents, I’d make my dad pump the pedals on the player piano, while I sat on his lap, and my favorite piano roll was “El Capitan”.
I’d clap along with the entire piece, while my dad would pump the pedals, and each time the song was finished, I’d shout, “play it again, dad!”
To which my father, who was worn out from pumping the pedals for the previous four times in a row that the song played, would finally look down at me, and out of breath, he’d say, “Son, I know you love El Capitan, and I love it, too…but if you make me pump these damned pedals one more time, the next time you hear this song will be at my funeral!” 🤣🤣
I have very fond memories of both this music and of my late dad, and the lengths he was willing to go to just to make his little boy smile…
Years later, in the spirit of both honoring him and the two of us sharing our inside joke just one more time, I made sure that the collection of music played at his funeral included El Capitan.
I miss ya, Pop…
(“play it again, dad!” ❤️)
🙏
1:27 “a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down”
The Skrillex of his day.
This selection will be a mandolin solo by Mister James Fitzgerald.
I have always like this music. Love the USA.
@Robert Binner Mattfeldt ok boomer
Same!
Which is how I saved Roosevelt!
I'm in a marching band and this is one of the songs we're gonna be playing. From 1:11 to the end is what we play
That’s where the piece only gets better from there
I play the tuba part to it and I love it
That's why he was standing back so far that's why when he aimed he missed the car just lucky I was there or we'dve been left bereft of FDR
FINALLY found this - I mainly know it through the song ‘How I Saved Roosevelt’ from Sondheim’s Assassins, so I’m so glad I’ve found the original piece!
It’s this, and then the part that goes “this makes our vacation a real success…” is derived from the Washington Post March
This march, El Capitan, and Washington Post were the two matches that remember the when I played in the band of Memphis Central High School
Good to hear this music played properly, with attention paid to Sousa's scoring and dynamics.
pro trick : you can watch series at Flixzone. Been using it for watching a lot of movies during the lockdown.
@Casey Carmelo Yea, have been using Flixzone} for since december myself :)
Everyone plays it properly to the best of their ability.
well it is the best band on the face of the earth.
Only the 1800s veterans will remember this when they're still alive in 2024
John Philip Sousa, the Skrillex of his day.
Brings back memories of marching in parade formation with my M1 Garand at right shoulder arms in the Army.
We’ve learned how to play this in band
I play percussion
rip
The only Harvard graduate in the WWE, Christopher Nowinski!
Note that the description above is mistakenly for the "Bride Elect" another operetta march. The Marine Band website gives the description as follows:
"One of the perennial Sousa favorites, this march has enjoyed exceptional popularity with bands since it first appeared. It was extracted from the most successful of the Sousa operettas, El Capitan. El Capitan of the operetta was the comical and cowardly Don Medigua, the early seventeenth-century viceroy of Peru. Some of the themes appear in more than one act, and the closing theme of the march is the same rousing theme which ends the operetta.
This was the march played by the Sousa Band, augmented to over a hundred men and all at Sousa’s personal expense, as they led Admiral Dewey’s victory parade in New York on September 30, 1899. It was a matter of sentiment with Sousa, because the same march had been played by the band on Dewey’s warship Olympia as it sailed out of Mirs Bay on the way to attack Manila during the Spanish-American War.
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Paul E. Bierley, The Works of John Philip Sousa (Westerville, Ohio: Integrity Press, 1984), 43. Used by permission.
Written the same year as S&S Forever, it is an outstanding march and surely one of his top 5 most famous, and with its mix of 2/4 and 6/8 meter is has a great contrast of the best themes from the operetta.
This is being played in the Philippines by the Philippine Army Band/ Philippine Marine Corps Band during Military Parades and Special Occassions....
POV: You're likely here from EATEOT.
Over several days at work, I listened to the US Marine Band's five volumes of Sousa marches, ad seriatim, and heard many outstanding works accurately and outstandingly played that I've never heard before - many of which are more than equal to the fifteen or twenty that get performed all the time. The Band has made it a project to record all 140 or so of these works, so I'm anxious to hear the volumes let to come. I have to say, though, that the UK has the US beat all to hell in the (at least former) quantity of fine military bands; there just doesn't seem to be the same tradition in the US military.
a number of years ago Book of the Month Club put out the Complete Marches on Vinyl played by the Detroit Concert Band. I got them at an estate sale 10 dollars for ten albums. They are in excellent condition.
I quite agree. This music deserves proper respect and attention and gets it in this fine series of recordings. If you like this you might like to listen to Herbert von Karajan's excellent 1973 recording of German and Austrian marches. It's on here. Again, they just play what's written with the added attraction of what was at the time probably the best wind section in the world, the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra's. Karajan isn't a bad conductor either!
He is really Skrillex of his day.
I love this music most.
Why is no one having a good time? I specifically requested it.
There is an excerpt from here that is being used for the John Phillip Sousa band. Good luck to all of those auditioning this year!
From Harvard, Massachusetts Christopher Nowinski.
Who else is playing this for their school band in quarantine
Yes.
Nope
Me
We are about to right now-
I'm here because of a certain man named James Fitzgerald.
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Love this march!! Played it in my high school marching band.
Sousa got more out of the five chord than any other composer!
it's the burger beer march bring you Cincinnati red baseball with white Hoyt
In 1896, Sousa published the El Capitan operetta, though all but forgotten nowadays, was apparently a smash hit in its day. However, the march extracted was a great success, and surely is in his top five or six works. He then published Stars and Stripes Forever at the end of the year, would be hard to think of a more successful year.
I'm a great proponent for having the second strain "de-orchestrated" first time around (typical Sousa style was cutting out upper woodwinds, brass and percussion, and remaining voices dropped an octave and played softer), to allow anticipation for second time round with all voices at fortissimo. However, I never thought it really works in El Cap, as the dynamics within the second strain are enough of a contrast and the crescendos just seem somewhat hollow, I'm curious to know which sources claim that this is the "authentic" way of performing is as were it up to me I'd keep all voices in both times for this one.
My favorite song I’ve ever played in my band career ever. Reminds me of Disneyland
Born in East L.A.
USC ROTC Marching Band on tactical inspictions...still rings to me nowadays!
OMG THE SELECTION THAT WILL BE MANDOLIN SOLO BY JAMES FITZGERALD
Shut up.
2:03
Listening to this because the people in my section don’t know how to play it so I have to
❤
this selection will be a mandolin solo by mr james fitzgerald.
El diario hablando con Don Italo Iguarán Pertuz en radio libertad Barranquilla Colombia...
John Phillip Sousa, the Skrillex of his day
Not many Sousa marches change time signature
John Phillip Sousa, the Skrillex of his day!
It's lucky I was there! Or we'd have been left bereft of F
DR!
Ayyye where the YHU honor band at??
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Once upon a time, back in the early 1970s, I applied for the US Marine Corps Band.
They didn't accept women then. I cried over the mail rejecting me, you bastards.
My son is a Marine, and I hope you mfers have learned a thing or two.
Who here from granite
2bd page 1:03
I came to vote lol
part G is killing my tongue
I don't understand why this group uses only the cornet parts and not the trumpet parts...
Ben Jarvis The trumpets parts are not original. They were added later by house arrangers unknown. This is due to the evolving instrumentation of the band at the time. Once the instrumentation was standardized, publishers (Carl Fischer) had their staff arrangers add the extra parts such 2nd flute, 2nd alto sax, alto clarinet, and trumpets.
Channel 11 from Pittsburgh wrestling show intro music in the 60s and early 70s!
Bill “Chilly Billy” Cardille!
Co-starring Izzy “The Blind Ref” Moidel - an inspiration to succeeding generations of NFL officials!
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little notes 0:20
A 0:07
L'extase définitive du tubiste.
Nie to, żebym ja komuś coś narzucał, ale orkiestra reprezentacyjna nie musi cały czas rżnąć Warszawianki i Pierwszej Brygady, dla zdrowia psychicznego orkiestry i reszty żołnierzy jakaś odmiana. Nie wiem czy to jakieś plotki, ale słyszałem, że orkiestra w czasie wojny to kopie groby, byłbym wdzięczny, gdyby ktoś wyjaśniłby mi tą sprawę.
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Hell yeah 8th grade shit
Yas me on my best friend's tv
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E 1:11
Okay Dennis, give me their licenses, IDs, toll tickets, report cards, notes from the teacher...
Great song and all but the horn part is boringgg
Welcome to Sousa.
@@Ben-zl5fc Welcome to every march ever
@@bobbob123ful Not True, some marches has F horn Melody in them. None are Sousa
*muricaintensifies
Playing this is symphonic band 👌🏻💩🎺
no it isn't ! ! !
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