Adriano de Sousa Lopes, 1879-1944

This chapter details John Philip Sousa's career as a violinist, his earliest efforts as a composer, and his first tours away from Washington as a professional theater musician. By ...

The story of Germany's disastrous last cross-Channel Blitz in early 1944, which left the Luftwaffe devastated and barely able to oppose the D-Day landings. OperationSteinbock,...

This chapter discusses John Philip Sousa's move from Washington to Philadelphia to prove himself as a violinist, arranger, and composer. Following his tours with Nobles, he “decide...

This chapter focuses on the Boston Ideal Opera Company, a comic opera troupe. Its founder, Effie Hinckley Ober, was not a performer, but a businesswoman who owned one of the first ...

Die Ausstellung widmet sich dem progressiven Künstler Paul Gangolf, der in europäischen Metropolen wirkte und 1936 im KL Esterwegen ermordet wurde. Paul Gangolf, der eige...