Word: gaudeamus
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...Breslau's tag for him--"the foremost composer of serious music today": the songs were about wine, women and sport. The last tune before the recapitulation, for example, is Fuchslied (Fox Hunt), played by two choppy bassoons imitating the way freshmen used to sing it. The piece ends with Gaudeamus Igitur, the most popular of student songs, probably still sung by most members of the Fly Club: "Let us rejoice when we are young...
Those who don't have an ear for music will be able to remember a line in the moderato of the Shostakovich that sounds just like the theme from Million Dollar Movie. The Tubin, similarly, contains rhapsodic, whistling tunes of the Bohemian life. And Gaudeamus Igitur--well, a trip to the Hasty Pudding might be just as good...
...have often made the process seem more like a bringing down, a reduction to absurdity of the meaning and intent of learning. Is there then any rational basis for optimism? It is arguable. Perhaps, reason and prophecy to the contrary, man must rely on the instinctive hope, the muted gaudeamus, expressed by the maid Lily Sabina in Wilder's play...
Greenberg has reconstructed a Renaissance Mass built around Josquin's Missa Gaudeamus (1502). Interspersed between the sections of the Ordinary were small motets and instrumental portions by other composers, and the entire piece was entitled Missa de Nativitate Beatae Virginis Mariae. Since vocal and instrumental scoring was not indicated in the music of the Renaissance, Greenberg had to orchestrate everything. The result was anything but contrived...
...every Cotillion Room or Maisonette, the city has at least 100 small, usually drab, sometimes offbeat places, supporting all the piano players whose mothers forced them to go on taking lessons. Each has something reasonably unique, however slight. At 55th Street's Gaudeamus, tourists go for the foam-rubber padding along the edge of the bar, presumably there to protect them if the bar crashes. The best belly dancing east of Scranton, Pa. goes on in the Egyptian Gardens on West 29th Street. The African Room is full of thatch, fronds, voodoo masks, a men's room called...