The

Stars and Stripes

Forever

Sousa (1854-1932) Horowitz (1903-1989)

Transcribed, edited and typeset by Curt McDowell (2013)

from the radio broadcast of the Carnegie Hall performance (1951)

John Phillip Sousa (1896)

Arr. Vladimir Horowitz (1944)




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