SOUSA The Washington Post - "The President's Own" U.S. Marine Band 

My mother saw John Philip Sousa perform in St Louis as a child, in his band's last tour of the United States. I wonder if she was aware at the time she was viewing what would become history.

What amazes me is how softly the clarinets can play at that high of a range

I have a portuguese origin and I'm very proud of my surname...Sousa..

Amazing how all these John Phillip Sousa Marches are heard in so many films and television shows! We all hear them and think wow, that sounds familiar. I remember playing the Washington Post March and Semper Fidelis in music class in Grade nine. As a Canadian, it kind of struck me as strange to be playing marches written by an American composer, but after many years of reflection, I can attest that Sousa was indeed, "The March King"

It knocks me out. Sousa is recognized as The March King. But that really minimizes what a musical genius he was! As a composer, he is without peer; his melodies take such unusual turns, but they still sound organic and "natural". His mastery of the craft of arranging is beyond the beyond! His voice leading for all the instruments is so precise, so exciting, they create the perfect bed for the melody to ride on! It truly stirs the emotions of the listener. Sousa is WAY underrated as a composer. He was a true master.

I've been playing in Band since I was 10 years old. Sousa has always been a favourite. Well done guys, this is a great recording.

Precision like I have NEVER heard.

I was lucky enough to see the President's Own Marine Band recently for a school trip, and they really do play wonderfully. I would suggest seeking out Marine Band concerts, because they are one of the most musically precise and beautiful things that you can listen to.

0:00-0:44, there were 4 people in the percussion section, then 0:45, there are only 3!?!?!? WHY DID YOU HAVE TO GO 4TH PERCUSSION PLAYER, YOU WERE MY FAVORITE ONE!!!!! WHYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm a Veteran and all my family. From Air Force, Army, Marines, Navy, Coast Guard, and Fireman's and Policeman's Retired and growing. GOD BLESS MY FAMILY AND AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL

I downloaded the whole 6-CD set of the Sousa marches from the US Marine Band website. And it doesn't cost a cent! Some of the best music I've ever heard, and it was FREE! Great job, Marine Band! Thank you!

I had this song stuck in my head. I _knew_ it was a Sousa march! I Googled it and found out there's an awesome RU-vid page for the US Marine Band!

Those of us who have enjoyed the Marches of John Philip Sousa for decades, appreciate & understand why he was named "The March King". A true American Icon.

Praise God for a great nation like ours that produces just the right patriotic music and people with the talent play it with musical instruments. God Bless America.

Well done! A joy to hear and see. What a legacy for future generations, this music and your performance. An absolute JOY! Thank you.

I love you USA Marine Band..... (I am S' Korean)

THE VERY BEST OF MILITARY MUSIC-MAKING. BRAVO THE BAND " THE PRESIDENT'S OWN ", US MARINE CORPS :

Wonderful Music. Thanks to Sousa

I am now ready to leave my home and take on the day !! thanks again for the poster of this most wonderful band. !!!!

There will never - EVER - be another John Phillip Sousa. He wrote well over 100 marches, all of them noteworthy. This music is timeless and will never be outdated.

Happy Birthday, America!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love this country so much!!!!!!

My middle school band played this last year because they won the John Philip Sousa Sudler Silver Cup. I really wish I was part of that part that played it, but I’m proud to be part of the program.

I remember as a child in the 1960s the Washington Post newspaper using the Washington Post March in a TV ad campaign.

Played it hundreds of times in the symphony orchestras over the decades, never tire of it. Sousa’s genius!

What a great band. They really have learned the concept of dynamics!

High School Band brought me here. I thing I've played this about a thousand times already. Never gets old.

That percussion section is amazing! Such great touch and dynamics!

Nice dynamics by the band and the conductor. A very good rendition.

So good cant stop listening! Love that song!

Fucked up in the crib listening to the washington post march

Finding a US Marine Band concert at the Jefferson Memorial at twilight 50 years ago is an all time favorite memory. Finding my car still there parked on the Mall afterwards was also great.

Great performance. I played the trumpet for the school band. This was one of my favorite marches.

Amazing how many times I've heard this piece and not known what it was. Thank you for such a stirring performance!

all of the music they playing or played ,I've heard all since my childhood ,so good to hear up to this moment,from the era of the 50"s now is 21st century still playing their band music,thanks for uploading,....

Anybody else have flashbacks of standing in a field for hours with the occasional walk in a circle and salute?

Great Band, great playing and the balance is superb!

Friday afternoon parade at MCRD, San Diego, was always an event, and this tune was always one of my favorites. Semper Fi.

The conductor is so elegant

I love USA of America!! 🇺🇲🇵🇷

i remember playing this last year in school, its so awesome to play this song. definitely one of the best we've played.

One of the best marches in the world. Precision like I've never heard...

There was a fellow in our church that when he was about in 7th grade, his school band won a competition where first prize was to play in a concert led by Sousa himself!

Sousa marches never fail to put me in a good mood, no matter how I'm feeling, I put on Sousa and then suddenly my emotional distress, or feelings go right to pure joy to hear Sousa.

One of the best marches in the world

wow. yet another primo march by john philip sousa. thanks for uploading this one.

In 1889, a fledgling Washington DC newspaper asked John Phillips Sousa to compose a special march to be premiered at the award ceremony for a children's essay contest the paper had sponsored. With President Benjamin Harrison in attendance, the huge crowd on the grounds of the Smithsonian Museum offer their enthusiastic approval when Sousa led his marine band through this new work. It quickly became one of his most well-known marches not only in the United States, but across Europe as well. The march and the newspaper bear the same name, The Washington Post.

We were introduced as children in kindergarten as an accompaniment to musical chairs, but when ever I hear his marches I'm put in mind of a summer Sunday concert in the park with the music resounding from an open pavilion with Sousa conducting, or someone very like him.

I love this song. It's embedded in my brain from many a Change of Command or Division Retreat. Standing at Parade Rest while some officer gave a speech was never fun, but as soon as I heard the words, "Sound Adjutant's Call!" an electric current would shoot through me, eagerly anticipating the forth-coming command, "Pass in Review!" This song was almost always one of the tunes played by the band as the battalion marched past the reviewing stand.

The dynamic control here is incredible!

My trumpet teacher was taught by the first chair trumpet of the last lineup of Sousa's band. I still suck at trumpet because I never practice but I pretend I have a lineage to such beautiful music.

I just heard this on a Capitol Fourth. I love Sousa's marches and wanted to hear it again. Thanks Marine Band and Happy Fourth of July.

Watching these videos inspires me to pursue my dream of becoming a clarinetist! Absolutely spectacular performance!

When I was in school and played the trombone, I loved marches. It's one of the few types of music where the trombones get to really wail.

I love this song so much!!! Thank you for your service!

A flawless performance! Sousa would applaud! I LOVE "The President's Own" Marine Corps Band.

God bless America... God bless the Enclave

Band starts playing at 0:43 I encourage you to listen to the introduction though.

I love USA military bands and Sousa marching music. God bless all who serve our country in the military and their families who undergo lots of hardship when members are deployed away

Awesome vibrant music💂

The Bar Harbor Band played my favorite Souza march one Summer Nite. What a summer to remember.

This brings tears to my eyes. God bless the USA! 🇺🇸

our middle school band is playing this song. this helped alot, now i know how it's supposed to sound

Please make some more of these videos. This kind of stuff is the only thing that gives me those warm, patriotic, fuzzies anymore.

I'm watching this for my online school work

WOW! What a stunning performance with beautiful expression. Thank you.

I enjoy the music of SOUSA Robert from Australia

In One of my many past life i was jhon philip sousa 🇺🇸💪🏻 SEMPER FIDELIS

Totally superb many thanks indeed for posting it here RU-vid

Happy Birthday Marines!

This was the first march I ever heard-and it's the one that got me into music and band! Thanks a lot! I still look up to you guys as like my role models or something, idk. Regardless, you're AWESOME! :D

The song still resonates with the American spirit. The newspaper died in darkness a long time ago.

I have to periodically listen to Mr. Sousa's works. He was spectacular. I doubt he'll ever be matched and never topped.

I loved this piece when I played it in my high school Marching Band. I also remember hearing it as background music on Captain Kangaroo when I was a little kid, but I didn't know what it was until I learned about it in the high school band.

An outstanding performance.

Definitely my favorite marching piece aside from Semper Fidelis! Our University frequently uses this during military parades.

These guys play with a precision and finesse that is amazing.

When I was a kid in the DC suburbs in 1960s, the Post had a cartoon TV ad of a marching band performing this march to sell subscriptions. Other newspapers can only be envious 🙂

I played it in 7th grade too1 I was a flutist back then, but tonight I got called on to play it with the US Navy Band ((I'm a sophomore now)) as a french horn player! Definitely fun.

"Not only in the United States, Hut across Europe as well." Now the entire world.

You guys sound fantastic !

Genius. I just love this guys work. Happy Birthday America!

Happy Veteran's Day! Honor all the soldiers who have gave to us.

When President Richard Nixon visited Jordan in June 1974, he was greeted at the airport in Amman by a band playing this piece. Four years later, as ex-President, he visited the small town of Hyden, Kentucky, and the Fort Knox Army band played it as he left town. Given Mr. Nixon's feelings toward the Washington Post, I'm sure he appreciated it very much.

Fab intonation and tonality. 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👌

Absolutely Incredible!

This great John Philip Sousa march was, very appropriately, played as the finale just before the casket of longtime "Washington Post" Executive Editor Benjamin C. Bradlee was led out of the National Cathedral yesterday, at Mr. Bradlee's funeral in Washington, D.C. The piece was played just after "Taps" and the handing over of the folded American flag to Bradlee's widow, Sally Quinn Bradlee. I am so glad it was an upbeat march as the finale for Mr. Bradlee, and not some solemn drone. Ben was an upbeat guy just loaded with chutzpah, and only fitting his swansong should have been as peppy and spirited as the man himself. I don't recall if this march was played at the funeral (held at the same venue) of "Post" publisher Katharine Graham in July 2001, which would also have been appropriate. But for Ben Bradlee, a former commander of a Pacific destroyer in World War II, I think only "Anchors Aweigh" (the U. S. Navy anthem) would have been as nearly fitting an exit theme. I think this may also be my favorite Sousa march, although so many of them are equally great; "El Capitan," "Semper Fidelis," "Stars & Stripes Forever,' etc. If ever a song were to replace "The Star-Spangled Banner" as the U.S. national anthem, I think it should be a Sousa march. I think Sousa could truly be called America's national composer. And this is a rock & roll fan writing this--I also love the music of The Beach Boys, Eddie Cochran, The Everly Brothers, The Ramones, The Rolling Stones, The Ronettes, and Dusty Springfield, among so many others, including Motown, punk, soul and rockabilly. But nothing sounds so American as a Sousa march!

I was always 1st chair drummer all thru school, but when I did a try out to apply for the Marine Band in San Diego during my tour of duty, I didn't come close to making it. The percussionists are THAT GOOD! SEMPER FI and OOH RAH! SSgt Stailey (ret)

Fabulous rendition, best ever!

Very beautiful music!! compliments!!

Very nice, my school played El Capitan for our concert, would be cool to hear one of the best bands in the world perform this

I enjoyed playing this march in college!

I love all yours videos. Beside a great song it education me about the history too. Been there in US at Princeton, IL, and love it.

My dad in 1971 had a small 46 record I would play it over and over and pretended I was in the parade ‘ ❤️❤️❤️❤️

Fantastic. Thanks 🇺🇸🍀🇺🇸

3:21 The way they all stand is so smooth that the sound makes we want to sleep.

I enjoyed listening to marching band music. I especially enjoyed them when the 13th Airforce Band(based at Clark Field at that time) would visit Leyte to join in the celebrations for Gen. MacArthur's return and his troops every 20th of October.

No other song fills me with such joy. what a piece.

Straight hell for French Horns

GOD BLESS ,!!!AWESOME AS ALWAYS .

HAPPY BIRTHDAY AMERICA!!!! Number One Always