2017-07-03 Patriotic Concert – Lake Oswego Millennium Concert Band
It’s coming up on the 4th of July, so here’s a classic patriotic piece and our closer from our outdoor patriotic concert last year.
Composed by John Phillip Sousa in 1897 and adopted as the official march of the USA in 1987 (a pleasing bit of numerical symmetry there), The Stars and Stripes Forever is the quintessential march. When the Sousa band debuted it, they had to play it three times because the crowd loved it so much.