Sarasota is a city in west central coast of Florida. In 1962, the Sarasota Mobile Home Park Auditorium was built as a meeting place for residents of mobile home park. The auditorium is used primarily as a leased facility by the public for dancing, band concerts, meetings and private parties. The room has a good three miles square foot wood floor suitable for dances and meetings, and there is a large, well-lit scene of bands or theaters.
The Sarasota Mobile Home Band is one of the more established groups operating in the region, and performs regularly at the Auditorium. In 1993 he received national accolades, since they were introduced to the silver roll Sudler - an award that recognizes and honors the community groups that have shown particular standards of excellence in concert activities over several years and have played a and leadership role in the cultural and musical environment in their communities by the John Philip Sousa Foundation.
John Philip Sousa Foundation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting the development of the world music band. The Foundation administers a number of projects and awards supporting high quality performance of band, orchestra and composition.
The foundation is named after John Philip Sousa, a prominent composer of American music harmony in the late 19th and early 20th. John Philip Sousa was born in Washington, DC, November 6, 1854. A los 13 años, se alistó en la Banda de la Marina de los Estados Unidos como un "chico" (aprendiz) músico, pero también continuó su escuela de música donde imparte clases privadas de violín, armonía y la composición. After being discharged from the Navy, which has served as violinist and conductor in various theater orchestras in Washington and Philadelphia.
In 1880, his fame as a conductor, composer and arranger had been created, and became band director of Marina S. U. and served in that position for 12 years, finally casting the group most beautiful military music in the world. He resigned from the Marine Corps in 1892 to form his own group of civilians in a few months had taken a position of equality with the best symphony orchestras of the day.
The Sousa band toured the world in 1910 and 1911, made four additional rounds of Europe, and annual visits to the United States. Although Sousa is stereotyped as a composer of March, has composed music in many forms, including fifteen operettas. He was a tireless worker, proclaiming "When you hear of Sousa retirement, you hear of Sousa dead. This prediction comes true when he died suddenly after a band rehearsal in Reading, Pennsylvania, March 6, 1932.
"The Stars and Stripes Forever" is widely regarded as a masterpiece of Sousa, and after an act of Congress, became the national march of the United States.
There are many hotels in Sarasota available for anyone wanting to take the silver book Sudler win Sarasota Mobile Home Band in concert.