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SOUSA: DEsiree

Applebaum, Thorburn, Brunssen; Price, Lissemore, Bass; Pocono Pops, Fisher. Libretto available by mail. Amdec AMTC-101 (Allegro)

El Capitan

Beer, Caram, McCormick; Edwards, Meets, Webster, U. of Illinois Band & Sinfonia du Camera, Hobson. No libretto. Zephyr 11095 (2) (Allegro)

John Philip Sousa's operettas are nearly as mysterious as Franz von Suppe's: we're left in one case with marches, in the other with overtures. Sousa was well trained, and he assimilated several European lightopera styles from his early days playing in theater orchestras. Desiree (1884), his first stage score, bows prettily to Paris, Vienna and London models that were then popular in the U.S. ...

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