Biography about john philip sousa award scholarship
Biography about john philip sousa award scholarship
John philip sousa award scholarship...
John Philip Sousa Foundation
American band music nonprofit organization
The John Philip Sousa Foundation is a non-profitfoundation dedicated to the promotion of band music internationally.
The foundation administers a number of projects and awards supporting high quality band performance, conducting, and composition.
The foundation is named for John Philip Sousa, a prominent composer of American band music in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Successor to the Sousa Memorial Committee, the organization was reorganized as the John Philip Sousa Foundation in 1980 with support from Louis Sudler, a Chicago real estate developer and arts patron for whom many of the foundation's awards are named.[2][3]
Projects
Projects of the Sousa Foundation include funding for the main stage at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., honor bands, conducting competitions, awards for outstanding performing ensembles, and bringing attention to historic sites in band hi