FEATURED AUTHOR - After graduating from Duke University, Glen Dawson owned and operated a flexible packaging manufacturing plant for 23 years. Then, he sold the factory and went back to school to get his Master's degree in biostatistics from Boston University. When he moved to North Carolina, he opened an after-school learning academy for advanced math students in grades 2 through 12. After growing the academy from 30 to 430 students, he sold it to Art of Problem Solving. Since retiring from Art of Problem…
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As official bandmaster to the President of the United States, Sousa recalls his own nightmares on the bandstand. There's the new president who doesn't like music, the visiting diplomat who's anthem is suddenly vanished from the bandbook, or the night only he and the bass drum turned out for the gig, the night the fireworks caught fire, and the first night they, the Union's Marine Band, was to play for the Confederate South.
There's not much structure to the book; they didn't care much about that sort of thing back then, Sousa just flits ad hoc from anecdote to anecdote like you're sitting in a pub with John Philip himself when he says, "Did I ever tell you about the time ..."