### Clue: Old bandmaster provided by America (5)
### Answer: SOUSA 
 ### Explanation: Definition: Old bandmaster
 SO(an archaic form of "provided that" as given by Collins – does anyone have any example of such a use?) **plus**(by) USA(abbrev. for the United States of America).
Answer: …, John Philip, bandmaster and composer of military marches in the Romantic era.