‘The Aviators March’ By John Philip Sousa
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Local resident John Philip Sousa, the “march king,” composed “The Aviators March” in 1932 to celebrate the local citizen’s role in an exciting new era of technology and hope fo the future.
The sheet music was published by the Theodore Presser Company.
Learn more about aeronautical sheet music at http://www.sil.si.edu/ondisplay/Music/intro.htm, a digital exhibit from the Smithsonian Institution’s Bella C. Landauer Collection.