 In August 1932, 39 trunks and two boxes containing over 9,000 pounds of music arrived here. They formed the Sousa Archives that are here today. Sousa died at the age of 77 after conducting a rehearsal of the Ringgold Band in Reading, Pennsylvania. The last piece he conducted was the Stars and Stripes Forever. Traveling the countryside in Urbana, Illinois, I'm Andrew McRae. Music