10/31/2022 0 Comments University of notre dame victory march![]() ![]() ![]() It has certainly been emulated and copied as much as any college song in history, but it has never been equalled. The famous Notre Dame Victory March is widely held as one of the most recognized and the best college fight song in the country. More recently the band has played for every sitting president, performed across the country and around the world, and has collaborated with such musicians as Phillip Smith, Chris Vadala, Jon Bon Jovi, and the band Chicago. The band has played for countless concerts, masses, graduations, civic functions, bowl games, parades, athletic contests and many national championships. The Band played as students left to join the armies during the Civil War, World War I, World War II, Korea, and Vietnam, and played a benefit concert for the victims of the Great Chicago Fire in 1871. It’s early purpose was to lift the spirits of students and provide music for special occasions. The Notre Dame Band is an integral part of campus life. The Notre Dame Band was celebrating its forty-first anniversary when that historic first game was played. It was on hand for the first game against the University of Michigan in 1887 and has not missed a single home game since. ![]() The Band of the Fighting Irish has a long tradition of providing music and pageantry for the Notre Dame football games. The University of Notre Dame Band is the oldest college band (in continuous existence) in the United States and was honored as such by being declared a “Landmark of American Music” by the National Music Council, the Indiana Music Educators Association and Exxon Corporation during the 1976 U.S. The importance of music on campus also caused Washington Hall, a music hall and auditorium, to be built as the third major building of the new school, following completion of the Main Building with its Golden Dome and Sacred Heart Church. Music lessons began, and by 1846 the band played at the first graduation ceremony. Edward Sorin, C.S.C., who founded Notre Dame in 1842, decided that the new University needed a band. The Notre Dame Band has always been central to the Notre Dame community. ![]()
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