El Capitan March

About this film

The Cylinder Archive [ www.cylinder.de ] release for July 2009: An early rendition of John Philip Sousa's El Capitan March. Recorded for the Columbia Phonograph Company of New York & Paris. Exact dating of brown wax cylinders can be difficult to impossible. The current research status gives likely the date of late-1897 to early 1898, just before the Band's director William H. Santelmann became its new director. The previous director Francesco Fanciulli was not accepted for re-enlistment after the Memorial Day Parade incident where he refused to play marches by Sousa, despite a given order. El Capitan was one of Sousa's brand new compositions written in 1896.

Directors & creators

United States Marine Band

Subjects

cylinder record; brown wax; march; sousa; 1896; U. S. marine band; US marine band

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