SOUSA The Fairest of the Fair (1908) - "The President's Own" United States Marine Band
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- Опубліковано 8 кві 2018
- "The President's Own" United States Marine Band presents The Complete Marches of John Philip Sousa, a multi-year project to record and publish scores for all of Sousa's Marches. Sousa, known as "The March King," was director of the Marine Band from 1880 to 1892. Recording directed by Col. Jason K. Fettig. www.marineband.marines.mil/
“The Fairest of the Fair” is generally regarded as one of Sousa’s finest and most melodic marches, and its inspirations came from the sight of a pretty girl with whom he was not even acquainted. It was an immediate success and has remained one of his most popular compositions. It stands out as one of the finest examples of the application of pleasing melodies to the restrictive framework of a military march.
The Boston Food Fair was an annual exposition and music jubilee held by the Boston Retail Grocers’ Association. The Sousa Band was the main musical attraction for several seasons, so the creation of a new march honoring the sponsors of the 1908 Boston Food Fair was the natural outgrowth of a pleasant business relationship.
In fairs before 1908, Sousa had been impressed by the beauty and charm of one particular young lady who was the center of attention of the displays in which she was employed. He made a mental note that he would someday transfer his impressions of her into music. When the invitation came for the Sousa Band to play a twenty-day engagement in 1908, he wrote this march. Remembering the comely girl, he entitled the new march “The Fairest of the Fair.”
Because of an oversight, the march almost missed its première. Nearly three months before the fair, Sousa had completed a sketch of the march for the publisher. He also wrote out a full conductor’s score from which the individual band parts were to have been extracted. The band had just finished an engagement the night before the fair’s opening and had boarded a sleeper train for Boston. Louis Morris, the band’s copyist, was helping the librarian sort music for the first concert, and he discovered that the most important piece on the program-“The Fairest of the Fair”-had not been prepared.
According to Morris’s own story, the librarian, whose job it had been to prepare the parts, went into a panic. There was good reason; considerable advance publicity had been given to the new march, and the fair patrons would be expecting to hear it. In addition, the piano sheet music had already been published, and copies were to be distributed free to the first five hundred ladies entering the gates of the fair.
Morris rose to the occasion. He asked the porter of the train to bring a portable desk, which he placed on a pillow across his lap. He worked the entire night, and the parts were nearly finished when dawn broke. Both were greatly surprised by the appearance of Sousa, who had arisen to take his usual early morning walk. When asked about the frenzied activity, they had no choice but to tell exactly what had happened.
There were many times in the life of John Philip Sousa when he demonstrated his benevolence and magnanimity, and this was surely one of them. After recognizing Morris’s extraordinary effort and remarking that it was saving the band from considerable embarrassment, he instructed him to complete his work and to take a well-deserved rest, even if it meant sleeping through the first concert.
With no one the wiser, Louis Morris-hero of the day-was asleep in his hotel as Sousa’s Band played “The Fairest of the Fair” for the first time on September 28, 1908. Sousa did not mention the subject again, but Morris found an extra fifty dollars in his next pay envelope -the equivalent of two weeks salary.
Paul E. Bierley, The Works of John Philip Sousa (Westerville, Ohio: Integrity Press, 1984), 60. Used by permission.
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It's a great example of a less-military, more melodic march. The trio is stunning, and he's obviously very proud of the introduction - he then proceeds to re-use it at the end of the first and second strains, and again a variation on it at the end of the breakstrain. No wonder this march has stood the test of time!
Yes! The trio in my opinion is the most beautiful.
The clarinet part is absolute murder
Maria Rybakov The Killing Fields 🙄🙃🤭🙈🤩
Try Nobles of the Mystic Shrine
Agree!
The register key is our friend..... always remember
so true😂
I have'nt played the bassoon in almost 40 years but my head still feels like it's going to explode listening to this.
40 years? dang actually?
@@QWERTY_Games2 yep. while I was in high school (graduated in '83) and a couple years in college.
@@TasteTheRad1um oh wow
Every note of this is absolute genius. And the way Sousa keeps bringing back the opening motif in a way that sounds natural and organic is unprecedented. Wish this march was played more often!
I played this in Concert Band in high school in NJ. It is my favorite Sousa March of all time. Listening to it brings back such wonderful memories, but also makes me a little melancholy remembering the good old days! 😌🎼🎺🥁
me too XD
We used to play this all the time in my Marine Band. Hearing this almost makes me want to enlist again.
@@ImTheBatchMan back to the school of music lol. Maybe they finally got rid of the cockroaches in the galley
haha i’m playing it at my high school in nj right now!
Yes...! Yeah..!
Gorgeous euphonium sound shining through! This really is one of my favorites, and is not played enough these days.
I exist and I barely learned it and we are playing this 😅
I'm listening to Sousa marches i never even knew existed. They are absolutely great music!
I’m playing this right now In band, we just got it two days ago and I’m listening to it on repeat. What a great story behind this piece
Btw, I am a Euphonium player, and I had to play this particular piece my Freshman year of HS, RIP my Lips that year, but it did help strengthen them high notes
I was supposed to play the euph part but i noped outta that
i’m a freshmen rn and we’re playing it haha. also euph lol
everything Sousa does is brilliant omg
sadistic*
Had a recording of Sousa marches back when I was in first grade. Could listen to it endlessly, I loved it so much. This could have easily been my favorite. I always looked forward to the B and C sections of all the marches.
Wow we were lucky enough for our MS band teacher to give this piece to us (Not even dumbed down for us) to play at the SCSBOA festival last year :)
I call bull shit
I used to love playing this on my cornet. We had a great band director name Anthony J. Fassino. He produced many great musicians in the period 1946-1956.
The trio to this one is so very vocal, it's an aria!
Wunderbarer Marsch. Danke ein Posaunist und Marschmusik-Fan
What a charming story!
shut up! 😃
@@fortnite-ot4fj what’s wrong with you
Playing bass trombone was amazing for this piece
Beautiful euphonium counter melody in the 2nd section
MADE ALLSTATE BAND AND PLAYED THIS IN THE COUNTY CENTER WHITE PLAINS NY AND THIS WAS THE OPENING PIECE. FORGOT TO MENTION ON DRUMS. MY DAD AND MOM WAS SITTING IN FRONT ROW AND UPON HEARING THIS I STARTED TO GET VERY EMOTIONAL AND TEARS AND THE WHOLE BIT AND THIS WAS IN 1955 AND THANKS STEVE MULWITZ AGE 82!
who ever made the reply many many thanks!
I was born in ‘56 😉
euphonium is so fun with this!
Probably my favorite Sousa march even tho I’ve played 1 but listen to many
Finally! I've been waiting for this march to be uploaded. This is one my favorite Sousa marches.
You are amazing
I played this in high school!! Such a fun piece!! :)
I've heard of a Sousa-Phone.This must be the great Inventor and Marching Musician 🙂👍
2:06 👌
we listened to this song in band and i love the way it sounds. it’s so catchy
Play it 👍 you won't regret it
Played this one my freshman year in high school now recommending it for my son’s sophomore year. His band director is amazing and asked my for my opinion on which Sousa march would sound best for their concert season
The two Sousa songs I’ve played are this and the pathfinder of panama
Why have I never heard of this march before? It sounds like it would be so fun to play!
It’s VERY fun to play! When I hear it played, I love to sing to it! ❤️🎼
It’s not fun 😂
So fire
3:26 "The...Fairest, of the...Fair!!"
sight read this in middle school and it actually wasn't as hard as i thought it would be it is very catchy
2nd trumpet in this, kind of wish I had 1st, or the solo part, but it's interesting playing the offbeats and the background, it's nice not stressing out on my parts.
God, the introduction is so good.
So good that it keeps coming back! 😅
This is being played in the Philippines by the Philippine Army Band, Philippine Marine Corps.Band , Philippine National Police Band, Philippine Military Academy Band.... during Parades and Special Events.....
WOW
1st trumpet part really gets you because it's up and down and never ending like most of JP Sousa marches and other military style marches. It relies heavily on murdering your "chops" as a trumpet player. But I loved playing all of his marches.
#SEMPER FIDELIS #QUA PATET ORBIS #JE MAINTAN DRAI ! ♫♪ great ♫♪♫♪♫♪☺ BRAVISSIMO @/bisbis 🎶🎵🎼 great music! a well tuned ensemble that sounds like an organ ! Fabulous banding! Compliments! #SEMPER FI #QPO #JMD🎵🎼🎼🎶🎵🥁🎺👌🙏🙏🎺
Im playing this piece now as a 7th grader, its just simplified a bit more lol
I remember in 9th grade the euphonium part at @1:44 almost gave me an aneurism, it was way too high for me lol
👏👏👏
Love that dogfight!
I’ve never been so upset to play horn in my life
Measure 102 shall foil me no longer
i had to play this in 8th grade on my clarinet, i was brutal😭
So is the clarinet part. 😉
This makes me think of Disneyland..
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and I love it.
4th of July?
nobody’s playing the Eb cornet part in the recording :( it adds more than you think
Do you have a recording with the Eb cornet part?
i heard one once, i don’t remember where, and i sometimes look for it on the internet but i’ve never seen it again
I apparently got a decently high chair as a clarinet in my Concert Band and I’m starting to regret it. (If you know, you know)
Wow an actual peice that makes me really like and hate Euphonium at the same time
As a Bells/Rachet player I have 4/5s of the entire piece just as rests
nice pfp
I love to play this piece as an alto saxophone
Based
Playing this for IBA band, one of the better songs
The beginning part makes me think about "Dixie." Look away, look away, look away to Dixie Land!
I played this in a parade
Wow! That’s got to be difficult to play marching (except the melody)!
I play this piece on 1st trombone and I can say it’s a fast nightmare and it is also fun too but it’s hard to learn.
Hey look at me now I play euphonium and this piece looks like absolute hell :(
I KEEP LOSING MY SPOT IN THE MUSIC I CANT EVEN KEEP UP HELP
I PLAYED THIS! (I trumpet)
Me too
I am playing this on f horn in 7th grade
way better than pop
FR
UA-cam randomly recommended this to me so
when your band teacher makes u play the clarinet part
I'll play this on my clarinet! Wish me luck! I forgot to tell you that I named it Clara.
Anyone here from hibike euphonium?
me
0:03
Anybody else hate the Horn part🥲
me after fairest of fair
E flat :D
This march sounds wonderful! My band just got this yesterday. However, I'm a French horn player so it's extremely repetitive and boring, per Sousa when it comes to Horn parts. :/
Omegalul
As a Bass Drummer I say this piece is very boring
U try playing the clarinet part 😂 it's not boring
I never thought drumming could be boring. Maybe it could be, but nah. You guys rock! Sometimes you are showcased. Sometimes you keep the rhythm... But you always rock. You are the envy of the band. :0)
Brooke Sundeen facts
Isn't every song kind of boring with a Bass Drum?
@@firstptr3and10_ Q: What do you call people who follow bands?
A: Drummers