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The Gladiator March
"The Gladiator" is a march by John Philip Sousa, written in 1886 while Sousa was leader of the US Marine Band.
The Gladiator was written as a tribute to Charles B. Towle, a journalist at the ''Boston Traveler''.〔Bierley, Paul E. ''The Works of John Philip Sousa'', Westerville, Ohio: Integrity Press, 1984〕 The journalist introduced him to the Knights Templar. Speculation has long surrounded the title for the piece, but one hypothesis is that the title referred to Towle himself, a gladiator of sorts who used a pen instead of a sword. Another plausible hypothesis is that the piece may have been written about an article Towle wrote for the Boston Traveler.〔Bierley, Paul E. ''The Works of John Philip Sousa'', Westerville, Ohio: Integrity Press, 1984〕〔Thomas, H. Todd. ''News Items: An Exploratory Study of Journalism in Music'', Abilene, Texas, 1992.〕
Sousa had not written many marches before that, and none of them received great popularity. The Gladiator, however, sold over a million copies - a record for the time and was soon performed frequently.〔(Museum of Learning, Discovery Media )〕 It follows normal march style, IAABBCCDCDC, and is played at the normal pace of most marches: 120-128 beats per minute. Although marches such as ''Semper Fidelis'', ''The Washington Post'', ''Stars and Stripes Forever'' and ''Hands Across the Sea'' have achieved greater popularity, the ''Gladiator'' is still regarded as John Philip Sousa's first success.
==Recorded versions==
*The Band of H.M. Coldstream Guards, cond. by Capt. J. Causley Windram. Recorded in London on January 11, 1942. It was released by EMI on the His Master's Voice label as catalog number B 9275.
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