Gaudeamus Igitur - Mario Lanza

[pollakerika]

Where are the other verses???????????????

[InVlaanderensVelden]

ZO MOET HET ALTIJD GEZONGEN WORDEN!

[TheMilagros59]

maravilla

[vesamartinovic]

Generacijo šibenske gimnazije 1970./1071. dobro došli u Šibenik 2.7.2011. na proslavu našeg jubileja.

[tommoking7]

infinite jest anyone?

[StephenYamato]

this is what i have to sing for school every assembly!

[carigara50]

Wonderful voice!!!

[757Jasper]

Rejoice while we are young

[TheLushie]

I recall trying to memorize this song as a student in Britain long ago.

You don't want to know the penalty for failure.....

As for who was better, Lanza or Caruso, I'm not sure we can say. Lanza sounds fresh and powerful, but he had better recording technology.

I find both awe inspiring and picking a "best" is way beyond my pay grade.

[alltheway93]

Love his voice and don't even need to know what he's singing about! I've now been enlightened - thanx!

[Almuric7]

I agree Mario Lanza is the greatest, he didn't jump through the hoops needed to be considered above Carusso and Pavarotti, but he had a more natural voice than either for me as a fan. The most effortless power I have ever heard in any Tenor so far.

[bassfanne45]

@Almuric7 I couldn't agree with you more. A much more natural voice than either of the others you mention!

[SkinnedLynryd]

Loose translation just to get the sense of the beginning

Therefore let us rejoice

While we are young

For after we have out-lived our youth

And we are pestered by old age

The grave will have us

[rockgor]

I'm so old I remember when the movie and

Lanza's recording were new.

Wikipedia says the song is about 800 years

old. It must have sounded considerably

different though since the diatonic music

system had not been developed.

Lanza made lots of wonderful recordings

including another operetta by Sigmund

Romberg, "The Desert Song."

Tnx 4 the nostalgic post.

[Merrywidowofthewest]

But do all these people know what the lyrics mean? All that is Latin is not necessesarily holy nor angelic

[Chayastri]

Hi MerryWidow, a case in point being the Carmina Burana and the Catulli Carmina!

[Merrywidowofthewest]

Hey what fun!!!!!!!!! You are educating me.

[welshsoldier211]

I love this song, my mother use to sing it to me as a child, it took me ages to find it and then I remembered that Mario Lanza sung it, phew!! :)

[acla9000]

Beautiful.. May God always keep him singing at the angels' chorus.

[guzicaguzica]

I'm crying now...

[toytop2002]

I love this song... It was sang in my high school graduation 2004/05! Makes me Remember Mrs Adio-Moses...

[TheLushie]

When I get the blues I play this recording and it takes me back to my happy days as a student in Scotland.

[VTERRELL]

1958 my Daddy singing along with Lanza and I am doing my part. Life was so simple then.

[juanbosco31]

El proximo 7 de octubre 2009 te esperamos para recordar a Mario Lanza. Lugar Cementerio Catolico de Culver City

Los Angeles California. Cincuenta Años sin Mario.......

[rouman7]

even angels, cannot sing this good, without doubt the best voice, bar none simply superb......

[dimare3]

You are so right. This voice was created by God. Bless Mario and all his family.

[Minikas121]

wery nice LOVE IT !

[Caroll2Ls]

My new husband bought me a stereo and the new Mario Lanza "Student Prince" album. I LOVED it! So did he. In fact, he played it so loud, he blew the speakers. I cried.

[dencam1234]

@Caroll2Ls were they that expensive then?.... please I AM joking, I sat through many a film when i was younger wondering WHAT HE HELL HAVE I DONE TO DESERVE THIS! but I must say that this man's voice/songs were certainly some of my fave's.(only 4 channels when I was a kid though!)

[Caroll2Ls]

On military pay in the 1960s everything was expensive. When I found Gaudeamus Igitur on You Tube I played in one too many times, after which my daughter said she could not get it out of her head! I did the same thing with Susan Boyle's audition piece on Britain's Got Talent. And now there is another very young phenom, Hollie Steele I think, that is supremely talented as well. Google her name. She's also from Britain's Got Talent on You Tube. Thanks for replying.

[felixmoga]

Where is the rest of the song?! Astonishing!

Vita nostra brevis est,

Brevi finietur,

Venit mors velociter,

Rapit nos atrociter,

Nemini parcetur.

And so on...

[508adriana]

que malo you you you!

[ScapularSaves]

Gaudeamus igitur

Juvenes dum sumus.

Post jucundam juventutem

Post molestam senectutem

Nos habebit humus.

[ZkaaZkaa]

Magnificent

[atticana]

This song stirs me to the very depths, especially when sung by Mario Lanza! What an amazing talent he was, cut short so young. Perhaps the angels in heaven wanted him to be singing with them.

[morriss108]

super

[ShadQwtH]

Perfect!

[aamore12]

good voice, wow :)

[poker1701]

ther will be only one mario lanza

[arcadiosr]

!!!!

[joluc11]

GOD

[JacquesDeyris]

la plus belle voix du monde au service du plus beau chant de tous les temps

[Bronwyn51]

pavarotti, and others like him are just pale imitations of mario lanza, mario lanza was the greatest tenor of our time, and will never be replaced

[Silver925night]

@Bronwyn51 i must disagree with what you said... simply saying that pavarotti is an imitation makes you and idiot... I don`t say mario lanza isn`t great, or not the greatest, but making all other "imitations"... is just too much... even for M.L

[crapfacejoe]

@Bronwyn51 Best comment I ever heard on youtube, and couldn't be more right.

[Bronwyn51]

the greatest tenor of our time who will never be replaced

[KyranGeraghty]

Hear hear. And so say all of us!! I love this classic. Sig Romberg wasn't bad either

[rxxreeves]

I've always found it interesting that in this recording he pronounces "igitur" in the classical Latin manner (ie a hard "g") whereas in his later 1959 recording he uses the later Church Latin pronunciation (ie a soft "g").

[astrarus1974]

Bravo!!!!!!!

[zsolt0907]

nice

[Aphidboy]

My mother loved this man's music, so we had his recordings in the house when I was a boy. I loved this song and would sing it as best I could while doing chores on our ranch in Montana. Just imagine a hillbilly boy singing this while splitting wood. RB

[GLG47]

I also grew up in Montana (Gallatin Valley) listening to Mario Lanza. It seemed to fit the state - big, powerful, wild but so controlled. The greatest of all time in my book.

[Aphidboy]

You bet! Great country and good music. Man, that's living.

I just wish Mario could have had a few more years. He should have lived long enough to solo in The Messiah and the big requiums. Alas, his foolishness was our loss.

[MattheusRazzor]

what about Vita nostra brevis est...

[dimare3]

This is another reminder of what a gift he had and was and is. RIP, Mario.

[Juanan89]

facile, fermosae...

[rossi985]

viva omnes virgines..

[sonybuddy]

nicht vivat omnes...?

[BenAliGtor]

I feel like putting on my doctoral robes whenever I hear this! LOL

[longfoot]

His hair is way too high but so is the voice!

I totally approve. More, encore.

[yuliana1010]

Bravo

[D2heartG2]

This man is my hero... from when I was a young girl he has had such a deep emotional effect on me when ever I've heard him sing. If you want to try join in :) Gaudeamus igitur Juvenes dum sumus Post jucundum juventutem Post molestam senectutem Nos habebit humus. (Let us rejoice therefore While we are young. After a pleasant youth After a troublesome old age The earth will have us.) ENJOY... AS LOUDLY AS YOU CAN :D

[GLG47]

What power! The most emotional yet controlled voice of all time. This rendition by Mario Lanza still puts goosebumps on my arms for all this time.

[ssdbtc]

it's a great song:) This song always remembers me to my high school years.

[nmonda]

juvenes dum sumus...

[CT00310]

escriban en Español

[daitwp]

beautiful he was one of the best tenors  daitwp

[Struckar6467544]

can't wait to sing it on saturday =D a long night that will be :) hopefully a few days:)

[Uigideaile]

"The Gaudie" is it was called at my alma mater, St. Andrews, is the "student song" of most of the European universities. As someone observed, it has been around for centuries.

The melody appears in Brahms' Academic Festival Overture - everyone rise and - if you are paying close attention, the Gregory Peck/Sofia Loren film "Arabesque." Sofia is not on screen at the time, so guys may be excused for noticing the sound track.

[almirCCR]

In the films "A Song is Born" and "Ball of Fire" (Howard Hawks)you can listen "Gaudeamus Igitur"

[balerofr]

Réjouissons-nous

Tant que nous sommes jeunes

Après une jeunesse agréable

Après une vieillesse pénible

La terre nous aura.

Où sont ceux qui furent

Sur terre avant nous

Allez dans les cieux

Traversez dans les enfers

Si tu veux les voir

[napolicentrale]

sarò un profano ma la voce di Mario Lanza mi sembra " meno commerciale" di quella di Pavarotti ovvero più intensa e bella. Ora per favore non mi riempite di offese se ho offeso il Lucianone nazionale.

[jmingus]

I agree with you.

[graverko]

@jmingus I agree with you

[juncatv]

translation:

Let's enjoy then

while we're young

through the joyfull youth

through the anoying senectitude

the earth will have us.

[brownstowngirl]

Can anyone be kind enough to post the translation for this?. Many thanks for the posting.

[RCFriedman]

Let us rejoice therefore While we are young. After a pleasant youth After a troublesome old age The earth will have us. Where are they Who were in the world before us? You may cross over to heaven You may go to hell If you wish to see them.  Our life is brief It will be finished shortly. Death comes quickly Atrociously, it snatches us away. No one is spared.

[biggerthanacadillac]

@RCFriedman Bl***y magnificent. Grit in my eyes. TRULY MUSIC with a capital A! Thanx 4 translation.

[KoenigAlareiks]

Ich kann nur 'Wunderbar' sagen. Danke!

[Bronwyn51]

I don,t know if you know this is from the film the student prince, and is latin for eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow we are old, and this is one of the best renditions I have ever heard, mario lanza was probably one of the best tenors of our time and no one will ever replace him.

[jmingus]

Yes, The Student Prince came out in 1954. Although Mr. Lanza wasn't seen in the movie, he was the singing voice-over for the star. I agree with your opinion of him. Thanks for your comment.

[NSResponder]

It was featured in The Student Prince, but it's a lot older. It's been around for centuries.

-jcr

[GLG47]

@Bronwyn51 Almost agree. Not one of the best renditions or tenors; the best without compare. No one has had the emotional edge and power of Mario Lanza. I appreciate your comment greatly. I am always happy to find another Mario Lanza fan.

[jbcapo1960]

Gaudeamus igitur,/Iuvenes dum sumus;/Post iucundam iuventutem,/Post molestam senectutem/

Nos habebit humus,/Nos habebit humus./Ubi sunt qui ante nos/In mundo fuere?/Vadite ad superos,/Transite ad inferos,/Ubi iam fuere,/

Ubi iam fuere./Vita nostra brevis est,/

Brevi finietur;/Venit mors velociter,/

Rapit nos atrociter;/Nemini parcetur,/

Nemini parcetur.

[jbcapo1960]

Gaudeamus igitur,

Iuvenes dum sumus;

Post iucundam iuventutem,

Post molestam senectutem

Nos habebit humus,

Nos habebit humus.

[erzbet07]

Beautiful rendition. Thank you.

[rouman7]

superb....

[canegracehasettevite]

..post jucundam juventutem

post molestam senectutem..

Naja!