Today’s the Virginia primary, and yesterday Hillary Clinton spoke at my alma mater, the University of Virginia. She spoke to Larry Sabato’s Introduction to American Politics class.
Maybe one day, after all the votes are counted, the oaths sworn and the stories filed, 1,000 people will remember witnessing a uniquely University of Virginia moment in the carefully scripted world of presidential politics: Hillary Clinton and U.Va. politics professor Larry Sabato swaying arm-in-arm onstage as the University Singers led an Old Cabell Hall audience in a rousing rendition of “The Good Ol’ Song.”
She spoke in Old Cabell Hall, an auditorium I know well, because it’s in the music building and it’s where my choruses performed most of their concerts. It’s cool to see photos of her there.
Here’s a podcast of the event.
I don’t know if it’s just the photo, but that hall is gorgeous.
It really is. That’s a replica of the School of Athens on the wall. During my last two years of college the hall it was closed for renovations, which was excruciatingly sad. Fortunately it was open again when I sang during law school. And here’s a 360-degree view.
Hooray for The Cavaliers and all the folks in Albemarle County, and throughout Virginia.
On a separate subject, when your choruses sang The Good Old Song, did you sing it as it was written in 1895?
– We come from old Virginia,
– Where all is bright and gay.
Oh, Chris, there’s a whole story there. Yes, it’s an integral part of the song, and it’s been part of a controversy at football games for years. See here for more info.
(As for the second verse, barely anyone knows it exists and it’s never sung.)
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