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Anyone have a nice tune for an Alma Mater song? A tune that most kids would know?
Not sure what you are looking for……a rousing “fight song” sung at competitive athletic or intellectual events (e.g. a Mir-Brisk talmud quiz like a fum “Its Academic”) or a slow, melancholy melody sung at the end of a class reunion…..Big difference
memories by abie rotenberg is sounds pretty good. easy and emotional
Color war is rigged anyways
Cornell University probably has the most famous one. “Far Above Cayuga’s Waters”. The sheet music is actually on the Wikipedia page and is in the public domain.
“Fair Harvard” also has a very popular tune.
Enjoy.
Abba by Avraham Fried
asimpleyid: He is looking for an “Alma Mater” nigun, not background music for an Alzheimer’s fundraiser or a Shoa Survivors Reunion
“What will become of all the memories
Are they to scatter with the dust and the breeze
Yet one thought gives me comfort
Its all that i have left
Oh i know that god in heaven
Wont forget”@gadolhadorah
the alma mater in camps is slow and emotional and they also change the words, so this works perfectly. they dont just sing a full song with the original lyrics lolAsimpleyid: Thanks for the clarification….I don’t recall any “alma mater” from my own years at summer camp. Thanks to Charlie Hall, I do very clearly recall the melody and lyrics of High Above Cayuga’s waters from my many years in Ithaca although we generally hummed everything after the first stanza.
deaf man in the shteeble and really any abie claassic song
joe dimaggios card
“Thanks to Charlie Hall”
You are welcome. I have not been back to Ithaca since 1974.
When I was Color War General we used “Birchas HaBayis” by MBC. The song “Yisroel” by Suki & Ding ft. Dov Levine was originally a Camp Rayim Alma Ater song.
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