No, that's not really what the concert was called...but it could've been hee hee. This is a video of part of the summer concert in the park series put on by the Corvallis, Oregon Parks and Recreation department featuring the Corvallis Community Band. The theme of this particular concert was the music of John Philip Sousa. Many people rightfully equate Sousa's music with Independence Day as well as themes of patriotism, militarism and nationalism. After all, he was an American composer and conductor of the late Romantic era, known particularly for American military and patriotic marches. Because of his mastery of march composition, he is known as "The March King." However, at the band concert, I learned something new about Sousa's music: he was quite a prolific composer and that throughout his career he had composed a variety of non-military and non-political marches, songs, suites, operettas with a diversity of themes. He even wrote a tango (quite scandalous for the times, I might add)! At this specific concert, the band presented several of Sousa's rarely performed compositions in addition to some of his more well known works. I particularly enjoyed this specific piece of band music and thought I'd share with y'all here at youtube. This is a ballet movement in one of Sousa's more obscure suites from a 1909 operetta entitled the Bride Elect. It's entitled "People Who Live in Glass Houses." The conductor explained to the concert attendees that the song was not written ...
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