Sousa's band conducted by Sousa himself plays The
Stars and Stripes Forever in an American Independence Day celebration. His operetta The Glass Blowers has a strong patriotic flavour, too. John Wallace conducts the BBC Concert
Orchestra and Singers in Cleopatra's a Strawberry
Blonde; The Factory Scene; and My Love Is a Blower.
From the 1995 Scott Joplin Festival in Sedalia,
Missouri, Fiona Talkington has brought back recordings by San Francisco musicians Bo Grumpus , and the Ophelia Ragtime Orchestra from Norway.
Today's Maple Leaf Rag is played by Vess Ossman with the Prince's Band
(1907), and Andrew Branch reads from Sousa's adventure novel Pipetown Sandy.