Roosevelt Academy Choir - "Gaudeamus Igitur"

[RobopYT]

Quit fast. But who says you can't interpertate sheet music! :)

I, for one, prefer a more calm tempo for the Gaudeamus...

[unalpalmira2301]

IT IS TOO FAST.

[gary52100]

IT IS TOOOOO FASTTTTTTTTTTT!!!! lol

[Jegermeistern]

Its OK to publish different tempi - then we can hear which is too slow, and which (as this one) that are too fast.

This song is the last part of "Academic Festival Ouverture" by Brahms - he preseted the songs as he heard them by the students at his time. I think his tempo is correct.

[princecrocodyle]

Lovely performance!

The fresh approach - conveyed by the pace - makes us aware of the fact that it is an anthem of young academics, leaving an amazing final period of their youth behind and starting into optimistic adulthood!

BRAVO!

(I wish I could sing this way.

I'll have my graduation ceremony in July. Unfortunately we only do the first stanza, at Vienna University.)

[DivorceGoddess]

It is not too fast.



[TheJbach]

this is a very sentimental and moving ditty... ergo poco, poco!!

[Studentenfanfare]

As a final comment, I would like to add that it it is too fast.

[eclecticscot]

Having listened to at least a dzn versions of this on YT, and having sung it myself, I personally like the Moscow perf the best overall. However, I do like this one, too, even tho at 140 it's rather faster than most versions at about 100. The most important part of this song is singing it with gusto- this is not a dirge!! 3inrifle gets it- this is a FUN song!! Listen to the end of Brahms' Acad Fest Overt- THAT's the spirit of it! (BTW- I esp like the sop line at the end of each verse.)

[3inrifle]

I've never understood why something that starts "Let us rejoice" is most often sung as a funeral dirge. And with lyrics like 'Long live the girls, so beautiful and willing, and the mature ladies, so tender and accommodating" it is hardly addressing the sacred. This is more an endorsement and celebration of the bacchanalian proclivities of students than anything else. As I posted before, nice to hear it as students may have sung it on the way back from the tavern rather than in chapel.

[TheRAChoir]

The composition and design of the Roosevelt Academy Choir has been changed in such a way that this video does not resemble the current RA Choir any more. For videos made by the current RA Choir we would like to point you towards the channel of TheRAChoir.

[welshsoldier211]

Too fast for my liking.

[3inrifle]

Not every hymn must be sung as a dirge. This is about youth and a celebration of life, not passing the open casket of lost youth.

[DrCharlie89]

WTF?? Is that race or hymn?

[didsburyduck]

Dreadful. Apart from that eager school choir (a bit flat?) and their parents' rightly delighted response, why is there no decent version on Youtube?

[akayume13]

Give these guys a break. The pitch was very good, and I for one believe music is an expression that is very much alive. Without interpretation and experimentation there is no progress, and while individual tastes vary - if the most important part of your day is whether a choir performs a song too quickly for your liking, that's an issue. I applaud them not only for their vocal talent, but also the bravery to perform and post.

[ognisperanza]

De gustibus non disputandum est.

[QuintanaZoray]

what are they thinking? I was looking for a version of the Gaudeamus Igitur like we sang it when I was a student. We stood up proud hand on our heart and sang it stately and proud of every sylliable. After all it is one of the official songs that are ALWAYS sung on a cantus.

Fooling around while it is sung will get you trown out of the cantus and people will hold it against you for a long time. Almost (or worse) like disturbing a national anthem.

this version is awful.

[neroclavd321]

feels like there is no proper version of "Gaudeamus Igitur" on Youtube....

:-(

[GLG47]

Flippant. Half star at best. This was an absolutely frighteningly awful rendition of this song. Now see if you can read and recite this comment in one breathless second just like you sang the song. I hope you don't have a version of the Hallelujah Chorus somewhere on here...

[theriddler55]

They're Roosevelt students....

They are inferior....

[BenAliGtor]

Nice harmony, but slow it down. The tones are to be savored, like a fine wine.

[satelit1984]

Why don´t they ever sing the "Vivant omnes virgines" stanza?:D

[simocyber]

Too Fast!! troppo veloce!

[larevepa]

slower damn it. I'm Romainan and my ancestors are the Romans I think they would be ashamed to hear it like that

[TarsTarkas21461]

That is WAY WAY too fast for Gaudeamus Igitur. What the heck is that guy thinking?

[joker71294]

u got nothing on my latin class ;)

[trumpet1977]

IT IS  TOO FAST!

[jmmisiek]

This is the best Gaudeamus igitur i have found here on youtube.

Try to hear this on your inauguration of study- you will understand then

[Holowachuk]

there is no passion at all... sorry

we sing it better ^^

[kakkamaki]

too fast!

[dermie12]

to the person who says too fast it is a German Student drinking song not a dirge it sounds like a hymn as they were taking the mickey. Nice fresh choral tone

[Aenur1986]

Not really medival, more early modern-ages/ 18th Century. But it's origins are in the medival, that's right.Still a far way to its "modern" form.

pereat diabolus

quivis antiburschius

[garbhd]

It's a mediaeval student drinking song. In light of the spirit of it, it doesn't really matter on the speed, so long as it is quite lively.

[Cereisa]

it's too fast..!!

[quicquam]

it is the only proper version of this song that we still sing in our Latin lessons... ^^

[svwkip1222]

exactly :P...

[larsvenils]

Schön! Kompliment! Bellissimo grazie!

Thanks.

[MNM1018]

agreed, my men's ensemble (the crane men's ensemble) is performing this and i should say it should be taken much slower, but its all opinions

[Danana28]

OMG!!! Does it really matter how fast or slow it is sung?? The point is that it sounds good. We [my choir] sing it slower. But this is nice too.

[Joermungard]

Seriously, telling me you don't like it that way doesn't help, so stop it. Sing it differently for all I care, but since our conductor and our audiences like it, posting for the 15th time that you think it's too fast doesn't change a thing.

[UkiWonderGal]

I think it is too fast. The second verse is meant to be fast and staccato the rest should be slower.

[Joermungard]

Dudes, if you think it is too fast, don't listen to it for heaven's sake, this is the way we perform it.

[4ntigone]

We listen... if we don't, how to say "it's too fast"? ;)

You perform it, ok. But.. too fast. ;)

[mihaiherda]

It is too fast...

[DJTurnerNo1]

Right, but practically we (Meaning my fraternity) sing it more slowly. The 7th stanza is sung in the style of Roosevelt Academy, this is where it says "pereat tristitia, pereant osores, pereat diabolus, quivis anti-burschius, atque irrisores"

[Joermungard]

Oh well, if that's the way you sing it, there's nothing I can do about it, and the same way, you'll have to live with it that we sing it the way we do, and the way we think it should be sung.

[DJTurnerNo1]

Thats it.

[Joermungard]

I know what you said, and what I meant to say is that it's not supposed to be slow, since it's a prank song sung by students saying "be happy because life is short".

[DJTurnerNo1]

OMG Too fast!!

[Joermungard]

So not true - it's a drinking song after all, it's supposed to be happy and springy!

[DJTurnerNo1]

No it`s a song which describes the shortness of our lives - it should be slow.

[Joermungard]

Does this sound slow to you? Read this:

[Joermungard]

"From Wikipedia

(Redirected from Gaudeamus Igitur)

De Brevitate Vitae (on the Shortness of Life) is a song in Latin that is a popular academic commercium song in many European countries. In many modern Western nations it is sung as an anthem at University graduation ceremonies. The melody is inspired by a medieval hymn. (!)Although this sounds very dignified, the song has been adopted by students as a form of prank and the lyrics are not very dignified.

[DJTurnerNo1]

No, read my first post, where I say that it is too fast.

[SpainSpitFire]

LOL true