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{{Short description|American conductor}}
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'''John R. Bourgeois''' is a former conductor of the [[United States Marine Band]] from 1979 to 1996, as well as composer / arranger of American music. Bourgeois also currently serves as vice president of the board of trustees of the [[Sinfonia Educational Foundation]]. He was initiated as an honorary member of the Zeta Pi chapter of [[Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia]] music fraternity at [[Loyola University New Orleans|Loyola University]] in 1956, and as a member of the fraternity's Alpha Alpha National Honorary Chapter in 1997. He was the fraternity's 2000 recipient of the [[Charles E. Lutton Man of Music Award]], presented at its national convention in Dallas, Texas.

Colonel Bourgeois, who was born in Gibson, Louisiana, in 1934 and educated at [[Jesuit High School (New Orleans)|Jesuit High School]] and Loyola University in New Orleans, served in the Marine Band under every president from Dwight Eisenhower to Bill Clinton.

Colonel Bourgeois has two sons, John A. Bourgeois, an attorney in Baltimore, Maryland, and Alexander S. (“Alec”) Bourgeois, a musician, artist, and web creative consultant in Washington, D.C., five grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren.

== Music ==
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|filename=Scott Joplin's "Sunflower Slow Drag" performed by the United States Marine Band.oga
|title=Sunflower Slow Drag
|description=Scott Joplin's "Sunflower Slow Drag" performed by the United States Marine Band in 1994 with Bourgeois conducting.
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|filename    = John Philip Sousa - Comrades of the Legion.ogg
|title       = Comrades of the Legion
|description = [[John Philip Sousa]]'s march "Comrades of the Legion" (1920), from "The President's Own" United States Marine Band's album ''Semper Fidelis: Music of John Philip Sousa''; Colonel John R. Bourgeois, director}}
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|filename=Galop from Genevieve de Brabant - transcribed by J. R. Bourgeois - U.S. Marine Band.ogg
|title=Galop, transcribed by Bourgeois
|description=From the operetta ''[[Geneviève de Brabant]]'' (the basis of the "[[Marines' Hymn]]")}}
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== External links ==
* [http://www.marineband.marines.mil/About/OurHistory/HistoryoftheDirectors/JohnRBourgeois.aspx Marine Band profile]
* {{Official website|http://www.jrbourgeois.com}}

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