What was the music they were playing and singing at the end of the movie. I know I should know it, but I can't think of what it is. Sounds like it's being sung in Latin or something. Is it a college song?
Oh Jerry,don't lets ask for the moon,we have the stars.
The music is Academic Festival Overture, Op. 80 by Johannes Brahms, but good luck on finding a recording that actually has the singing with it.
sharehere you go, there is a link at the bottom for the full digital version
http://www.newfoundations.com/Gaudeamus.html
A most excellent midi of it can be found here http://www.kunstderfuge.com/brahms.htm
shareDuring the movie especially during the scene where his friend and him are eating sauages and sauerkraut some strange music was being played... it sorta was over powering the scene. But I loved the movie so much!
shareIf you can find a recording of Sigmund Romberg's "The Student Prince", it should be on there, as it's included in this operetta.
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The much-used commercium song Gaudeamus Igitur was (in the early '50s) an element of university life that almost every college grauate or matriculant could be expected to know. It was perfectly natural that Dr. Praetorius' father-in-law (obviously college-educated) should be singing along with the chorus in those final scenes.
Prior to the years following World War II (and the G.I. Bill), college graduates were uncommon in America, and college curricula had not begun to undergo the degradation that presently obtains. Students applying for college might be expected to have a couple years' worth of high-school Latin under their belts (and possibly even some Greek) even if they were entering degree programs in the sciences, mathematics, or engineering.
As for the "remedial English" courses we presently see so many American universities making available so that the graduates of government ("public") high school systems might be trained to read and write at something approaching what used to be considered sixth-grade level....
Well, just bear in mind that People Will Talk was written and produced in a world far different from that in which you presently find yourself, when standards were higher, colleges weren't glorified high schools, and students were expected to work hard and learn.
Oh good! My dog found the chainsaw!
Absolutely true -- though the barely-literate children of the past few decades won't recognize it, and the collegiate industry would never acknowledge it.
It hasn't been all that long since a man wasn't considered decently-educated unless he wrote and spoke Greek, Latin, French, Italian, and often Hebrew. And the thought of cranking out a University student that hadn't mastered the calculus, physics and chemistry? Unthinkable.
Now they out bachelor degrees in such hilarious trade-school subjects as Secretarial Science and Women's Studies.
Ye gods.
Although I share your questioning of Women's Studies as a degree worthy subject, it is hardly trade school material either.... for exactly what trade would it train one?
shareThe scene at the end is really a wonderful Alfred Newman arrangement of the Brahms "Academic Festival Overture", with Newman bringing in a chorus to sing to the tune of Gaudeamus Igitur. Whether or not they sing the actual words, I can't remember. But I would wager that you could never find a recording of this version, done for the movie. There are a lot of inexpensive CDs (not to mention downloads) of the straight Academic Festival Overture (without chorus).
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