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During eighteen years spent in playing music for the masses, twelve years in the service of the United States and six in that of the general public, many curious and interesting incidents have come under my observation. While conductor of the Marine Band, which plays at all the state functions given by the President at the Executive Mansion, I saw much of the social life of the White House and was brought into more or less direct contact with all the executives under whom I had the honor of successively serving--Presidents Hayes, Garfield, Arthur, Cleveland and Harrison | Experiences of a Bandmaster by John Philip Sousa 1 Experiences of a Bandmaster by John Philip Sousa Project Gutenberg s The Experiences of a Bandmaster by John Philip Sousa This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title The Experiences of a Bandmaster Author John Philip Sousa Posting Date January 2 2009 EBook 2589 Release Date April 2001 Language English Character set encoding ASCII START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE EXPERIENCES OF A BANDMASTER Produced by Faith Matievich THE EXPERIENCES OF A BANDMASTER By John Philip Sousa Experiences of a Bandmaster by John Philip Sousa 2 During eighteen years spent in playing music for the masses twelve years in the service of the United States and six in that of the general public many curious and interesting incidents have come under my observation. While conductor of the Marine Band which plays at all the state functions given by the President at the Executive Mansion I saw much of the social life of the White House and was brought into more or less direct contact with all the executives under whom I had the honor of successively serving--Presidents Hayes Garfield Arthur Cleveland and Harrison. They were all very appreciative of music and in this respect were quite unlike General Grant of whom it is said that he knew only two tunes one of which was Yankee Doodle and the other wasn t The President s Embarrassing Demand. I think I may say that more than one President relieved from the onerous duties of a great reception has found rest by sitting quietly in the corner of a convenient room and listening to the music. Once on the occasion of a state dinner President Arthur came to the door of the main lobby of the White House where the Marine Band was always stationed and beckoning me to his side asked me to play the .