Talk:Academic Festival Overture

Nice article
=) Nice article. --User:Jenmoa 04:48, 13 July 2005 (UTC)

Finished quote
I've finished the quote with the essential reference to von Suppé that sets the tone. "Its structural refinement"- on this occasion- is not part of its appeal: its episodic structure is easily grasped, however. With a ref. added, I expanded slightly on the comedy. --Wetman (talk) 00:22, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

Linked recording
Sorry, but the linked recording is quite awful. I would suggest that you would rather include no recording instead of this collection of wrong notes and intonation cruelties. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.177.173.90 (talk) 16:39, 19 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Assuming you mean the YouTube link, I've removed it. Graham 87 10:42, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

Choral Finale
At the Last Night of the 1992 BBC Proms, Andrew Davis conducted the BBC Symphony and Chorus in this work and for the closing peroration the choir leapt to its feet and lustily sang Sir Malcolm Sargent's arrangement of "Gaudeamus Igitur." Sargent had also performed this at the Royal Albert Hall in 1961 and evidently his concert's programme notes stated that Brahms himself had sanctioned such a choral finale. I am unable to provide a "citation," so does anyone know if the claim is verifiable? This You Tube link takes you to the Andrew Davis performance ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjIGaL9HsDI

Philipson55 (talk) 14:37, 14 January 2014 (UTC)

When was the degree actually conferred?
From other sources, it seems that it was not the previous year (1879) to 1880, but at the ceremony in early January of the following year 1881, already described in the article. Marlindale (talk) 23:41, 2 May 2016 (UTC)

The Los Angeles Philharmonic Program Notes (External Links) say the degree was already given in 1879, but it seems that the premiere of the overture, and the "Academic Festival" it commemorated, with the giving of the degree, were on the same day in January 1881. Marlindale (talk) 02:46, 3 May 2016 (UTC)

Recipients of honorary degrees
Often, a recipient will give a speech at a convocation. For Brahms, writing a composition was an analogue of that, it seems. Marlindale (talk) 03:06, 3 May 2016 (UTC)