Your (FREE) chance to learn more about Sousa!

John Phillip Sousa, composer of The Charlatan, was a pretty multi-talented character.  Aside from composing nine operettas, he composed well over 100 marches (earning him that fabulous "March King" title), invented the sousaphone, directed the Marine Band for twelve years, wrote a novel, and was even a nationally ranked trapshooter.  

And on top of all of that, he's a D.C. boy born and raised, and he's buried in Congressional Cemetery in southeast D.C.  How's that for some amazing local talent?

Intrigued?  Want to learn more about this trapshooting musician? Then you won't want to miss VLOC's pre-performance talk on Saturday, September 6th at 7pm in the F. Scott Fitzgerald Theater!  We are excited to have Dr. Patrick Warfield, Associate Professor of Musicology at the University of Maryland, present this lecture on Sousa and his fascinating life.  Dr. Warfield is an expert on American musical culture, and his most recent focus has been on Victorian-era music in Washington, D.C.  He is the author of the Sousa biography, Making of the March King:  John Phillip Sousa's Washington Years, 1854-1893.

To learn more about Dr. Warfield, click here.  If you'd like to RSVP to the lecture click here.  Don't miss this unique opportunity to find out more about everyone's favorite trapshooting march composer!