Music Of The Great Composers --

Lt. John Philip Sousa-Part 2 Written by Lt. Comm. John Philip Sousa, U.S.N.R.F When I was twelve or thirteen years old I was playing first violin in Ford's Opera House, Washington; and a traveling comic opera company came for a week's engagement. I took the first violin part of the opera we had been rehearsing to my teacher to mark some of the fingering and asked him if I would ever by able to write an opera. He smiled, and said, Philip, you will write a better..