Music - The Stars And Stripes Forever - and 94 Piccolos

I have a set of cassette tapes that are biographies of composers.

Souza is one of the composer in my tape set!

I learned from the Souza tape, many years ago, you know, when cassette tapes were playable, often in vehicles, that Souza woke up one morning with the Stars and Stripes Forever clearly composed in his mind.  He just had to write it down.

One of the more striking bits of Stars and Stripes is the piccolo part near the end.

In the YouTube video below, the orchestra plays it through normally, and then reprises the piccolo part with 94 people!