Play On!

With his hallmark wit and eloquence, Colonel John R. Bourgeois gives an autobiographical account of his life and career as a musician from humble roots who rose through the ranks to became the twenty-fifth director of “The President's Own” United States Marine Band. Page after page is filled with recollections from Colonel Bourgeois's tenure with the Marine Band, many of which involve the most significant musical and political figures of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, including multip