Talk:The Fairest of the Fair

The Girl
I came across this citation:

http://www.naxos.com/mainsite/blurbs_reviews.asp?item_code=8.559029&catNum=559029&filetype=About+this+Recording&language=English

which is in the liner notes of a CD of Sousa's marches. The passage regarding the girl who inspired him to write "The Fairest of the Fair" reads:

"The Fairest of the Fair is generally regarded as one of Sousa's finest and most melodic marches. It was an immediate success and has remained one of his most popular compositions. It was composed to honour the sponsors of the 1908 Boston Food Fair, an annual exposition and music jubilee held by the Boston Retail Grocers' Association, for which the Sousa band was for several years the main musical attraction. In fairs before 1908, Sousa had been impressed by the beauty and charm of one particular young lady who was the centre of attention of the displays in which she was employed. When the invitation came for the Sousa Band to playa twenty-day engagement in 1908, he wrote this march. Remembering the comely girl, he entitled the new march The Fairest of the Fair."

Here's another resource:

http://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1002&context=clmusic_facpub

Does the community think these qualify as valid sources, considering one is scholarly and one came from the members of the Sousa band itself? There can be only one...TheKurgan (talk) 15:34, 26 July 2015 (UTC)