Clarinet section, Sousa Band, location unidentified

Unknown


Item type:
photographic object
Date of creation:
ca. 1920-1929
Technique / Medium:
photography

    Item location

  • Sousa Archives and Center for American Music
    Location details -- William Herb Papers, Sousa Band Uniform and Travel Trunk, 1924-1980 > Series 1: Photographs and Digital Images, 1924-1936 > Sub-Series 2: Band Members and Musicians > ElectronicFolder 2 > Item 92: Clarinet section, Sousa Band, unidentified location, ca. 1920s. Digital image accession file: 2006-1209102-092.tif

Description

Photograph of twenty-two members of the Sousa Band's clarinet section (front row: 10; back row: 12). All musicians are posed with their instruments while in band uniform. Behind the members stands a tall chain link fence and several trees and buildings.

People as subjects

Sousa, John Philip (1854-1932)

Iconclass

48C753
more than one musician with instrument

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Clarinet [3836] (Sousa's clarinet instrumentation during the 1920s including Bb, alto, and bass versions. By this point, the Eb clarinet was typically no longer used in the Sousa Band (Bierley).)

RIdIM images


William Herb Papers, Sousa Band Uniform and Travel Trunk, 1924-1980, Sousa Archives and Center for American Music, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Image URLs

image link 1
Sousa Archives data and image

Bibliographic references

Bierley, Paul Edmund. The incredible band of John Philip Sousa (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006) 251-252. ISBN 0252031474. RILM 2006-04359.

Notes

William Herb served in the Sousa Band as a tubist from 1924 to 1932 (the year of Sousa's death).

RIdIM record id

4769