School songs lyrics professional#

School songs lyrics professional#

Today 'Sans Souci' is performed at Columbia College associated events, e.g., Class Day, alumni functions, the Alexander Hamilton Medal dinner, and the John Jay Awards for Distinguished Professional Achievement. Coincidentally, 1949 also marked the adoption of another Columbia symbol, the University Shield. Apparently, sometime between the end of 1948 and Class Day 1949 they did, and Class Day was graced with a performance of 'Sans Souci' instead of 'Stand, Columbia' for the first time. Spec would go on to note that Sans Souci was a 'far warmer' and 'far more pleasing to hear' song than the 'un-singable' 'Stand, Columbia.' The following fall, Student Board took up the call, approving 'Sans Souci' as the official school song, and calling on the Alumni Association of Columbia College and the College's Committee on Instruction to ratify the selection. In January of 1948, noting crowds at basketball games seemed to lack a go-to college song to express their school pride (and noting that the semi-official 'Alma Mater' - possibly a reference to the song composed for the Glee Club by its director Walter Henry Hall in 1922 - had failed to catch on with students), the Spectator recommended that 'those who decide such matters' should enshrine 'Sans Souci' as the official school song, as it was popular among students and was effectively 'the' Columbia song in all but name. The song was first published in the 'Columbia College Song Book' in 1896 (giving it its original copyright date), and by accounts it became quite popular, serving as the de facto school song of the College as far as students were concerned. Fridenburg composed the song around 1888 while studying medicine in Germany, basing it on a drinking song (the first two verse's are Fridenburg translation of the german, and the third his original contribution to the song). Sans Souci (french for 'without cares' or 'carefree') is the Columbia College Alma Mater, composed by Percy Fridenberg CC 1886. Listen here: Haydn's 'Emperor' Quartet, II (ogg format).Music Score (Columbia University Songs, 1904).Today the song is traditionally performed at University events such as the Baccalaureate Ceremony and University Commencement, as well as various alumni functions. Note that the song actually has three verses in the original, but the middle verse about 'mighty patriots' and 'warriors' is largely absent from performances. It became at some point thereafter the official song of the University. Written by Gilbert Oakley Ward (CC 1902) as the Class Ode for the Class Day ceremonies in 1902 to the tune of the 'Austrian Hymn' (Haydn's Emperor Quartet, which also serves as the melody for the German national anthem, both with the old lyrics of 'Deutschland Гјber alles' and the present less jingoistic version beginning 'Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit'). Stand, Columbia is the official University alma mater. Of course, in the Columbia context, Alma Mater almost always refers to the Daniel Chester French sculpture that graces the steps to Low Library, The motto (and original name) of the University of Bologna (the oldest continually operating university in the world) is Alma Mater Studiorum ('Nourishing Mother of Studies'). The term 'Alma Mater' literally means 'nourishing mother'. In the United States 'Alma Mater' is the term for a school song or hymn (it is also colloquially used as a general term for the school from which one graduated.) Columbia University's official Alma Mater is 'Stand, Columbia.' Some individual schools have their own songs, most notably Columbia College ('Sans Souci.')