Making the March King: John Philip Sousa's Washington Years, 1854-1893

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Notes The following abbreviations are used in the notes. BP David Blakely Papers, New York Public Library DMB United States Marine Band Library, Washington, D.C. HJ  Sousa Band Press Books (cited by Herbert Johnston number), United States Marine Band Library LCSC John Philip Sousa Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress MA Sousa, Marching Along (1928/1994) MC Musical Courier MLK Martin Luther King Jr. Public Library, Washington, D.C. NARA National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C. NYPL New York Public Library NYT Times (New York) PI Inquirer (Philadelphia) RG Record Group SACAM Sousa Archives: A Center for American Music, University of Illinois SSA Sumner School Archives, Washington, D.C. WP Post (Washington, D.C.) WS Star (Washington, D.C.) Prelude: A Triumph on the Waves 1. Dreiser, Color (1923/1987), 122. Despite an outward generosity toward mixed social classes, Corbin did not welcome everyone, and in 1879 he gained some undesirable attention by banning Jewish Americans from his property. 2. “Determined not” and “raised his”: “Where the Surf Roars,” clipping labeled Commercial Advertiser (New York), July 3, 1893; “only a”: clipping labeled Citizen (Brooklyn), July 2, 1893 both in HJ 2, p. 43, DMB. 3. “In the Theaters,” clipping labeled Post Express (Rochester), Apr. 3, 1906, HJ 26, p. 3, DMB. 4. This book contains a number of musical examples, but further samples of Sousa’s output can be found at the Library of Congress’s Sousa webpages: http:// lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/sousa/sousa-home.html. Whenever manuscript materials are known to exist, their location is indicated in the notes. 5. “Where the Surf Roars,” HJ 2, p. 43, DMB. 274 notes to prelude and chapter one 6. “Mantle had”: “Charmed by Sousa,” clipping labeled Recorder (New York), July 16, 1893, p. 51; “new era”: “Sousa’s New Band,” clipping labeled Advertiser (New York), p. 53; “the old”: “The Manhattan Beach Jubilee,” clipping labeled Mail and Express (New York), ca. Aug. 17, 1893, p. 69; “as the”: “Where the Surf Roars,” p. 43, all in HJ 2, DMB. One. A Capital Boyhood 1. MA, 307. Sousa’s autobiography was a revision of six articles the bandmaster dictated to his personal secretary Fred Campbell and published in the Saturday Evening Post under the title “Keeping Time” (1925). In several cases Sousa added lengthy quotations from his other published articles, and in this case he is reprinting from Sousa, “Mr. John” (1908), 224. The story about S. O., U.S.A. persisted long enough that it had to be denied even after Sousa’s death; see, e.g., “The Origin” (1936). 2. Letter by Mills, Dec. 12, 1815, in Lodge, “Extracts” (1881–82), 14. 3. In 1870 the City of Alexandria became independent of the county, and in 1920 theresultingconfusioninnamesledAlexandriaCountytobecomeArlingtonCounty. 4. “Never let”: MA, 24; “illustrious line”: Sousa, Through the Year (1910), entry for Nov. 8. One example of Sousa’s reflecting on his name and potential ancestors can be found in Telegraph (Macon), Feb. 11, 1906. 5. Sousa reported that his father was born on Sept. 14, 1824, but various military documents suggest birth years between 1820 and 1827. The family name was variously spelled Sousa, Soussa, Sioucca, Soucca, Souca, Souza, and Saucca. See MA, 23; and RG 127, Entry 76, File of Antonio Sousa, NARA. 6. For details on the Trinkaus (sometimes Trinkhaus) family, see photocopied materials in the Paul E. Bierley Papers, SACAM. A letter from Catherine Margaret to Sousa’s daughter Jane Priscilla explains that Sousa’s maternal grandparents were Peter Trinkaus (1804–72) and Catherine Schafer (1808–70). See John Philip Sousa Collection, Correspondence, Individuals, “Sousa, Catherine Margaret,” DMB. 7. “My mother”: “Sousa has Realized His Father’s Ambition,” clipping labeled Chronicle (Spokane), Dec. 22, 1923, HJ 61, p. 235a, DMB; “by chance”: Sousa, “In the Days of My Youth” (1901), 388; the commandant’s letter can be found as Henderson to Reynolds, March 4, 1854, RG 127, Entry 76, File of Antonio Sousa, NARA. 8. WS, July 19, 1925. 9. “Interview” (1898), 171. Antonio declared his intention of becoming of U.S. citizen in October 1857 and succeeded in June 1864. See his citizenship papers, John Philip Sousa Family Collection, DMB. In 1975 the Concordia German Evangelical Church joined with the Union Methodist Episcopal Church to form the Concordia United Church of Christ. The church’s records are now held by the Historical Society of Washington, D.C. 10. Sousa,ThroughtheYear(1910),entryforNov.8.NoneoftheotherSousachildren foundthepopularfameoftheireldestbrother.CatherinemarriedAlexanderC.Varela. GeorgeWilliamsservedasapercussionistintheMarineBandunderhisbrother.Mary...