Why is Pomp and Circumstance Played at Graduations?

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Every year, hundreds of thousands of students march across a stage in a gown and a squared hat to receive a piece of paper that says they’ve completed a particular phase in their education. This school graduation will undoubtedly be marked by cheering, proud adults, and, particularly in North America, the playing of the seminal marching tune “Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1.” So, why is Pomp and Circumstance played at seemingly every graduation?
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@ThePstjtt 6 лет назад

I always thought it was because it could be played as an infinite loop, thus accommodating schools with tens of students marching down the aisle as well as schools with thousands of students marching down the aisle.

@Arcanua 4 месяца назад

By that logic you could play SO MANY pieces of music it's rather ridiculous.

@T0mmy9898 6 лет назад

It's weird having a whole video about a song and never playing it during the video, especially since it is so old there is no copyright on it.

@noeldown1952 6 лет назад

T0mmy9898 No copyright on the song, but there's copyright on its performance. So unless Simon can organise an orchestra to play the song for his video, he'd still need to pay royalty for showing someone else's performance.

@davidlevy706 6 лет назад

The Wikimedia Commons has a (somewhat crackly) recording old enough to fall in the public domain. High-quality, royalty-free recordings can be obtained from numerous volume license websites for less than £100 (including unlimited commercial use). That might be too much to spend on one video, but the PD recording is more than adequate.

@MathewWalls 6 лет назад

There's a CC licensed version here: musopen.org/music/5220-pomp-and-circumstance-op-39/ The non-commercial clause could be seen as a problem, but there's no ad on this video so my (uninformed) guess is it would be fine.

@macsnafu 6 лет назад

Surely there's a midi file of it somewhere that Simon and Co. could have used. Then you don't need a specific 'performance'.

@MathewWalls 6 лет назад

I'm pretty sure a midi file would also be subject to copyright as a creative work in its own right.

@deadfreightwest5956 6 лет назад

Elgar's "Pomp and Circumstance March #1 in D, Opus 39/1" is a truly great composition. It should be noted that the part most people remember from it starts about 2 minutes in. This is from the era of great British romantic music. Glorious! March #4 is another familiar piece.

@oxenforde 6 лет назад

Speaking as a former high-school band member ... the chorus (the "Land of Hope and Glory" part) is relatively easy to play. So, while the seniors are getting their diplomas--the less skilled juniors, sophomores, and freshmen can make a good showing; playing the easy-ish/repetitive tune.

@breezy9297 6 лет назад

Pomp and Circumstance always makes me think of Macho Man Randy Savage.

@robtru84 2 года назад

It's a graduation song before it became his favorite song

@PewPewPark 6 лет назад

Because the Macho Man demands it. Ooooooooh yea!!!!

@ScottGreenMusic 6 лет назад

DIG IT!

@windhelmguard5295 6 лет назад

remember he died so we could live.

@PewPewPark 6 лет назад

Windhelm Guard it’s ashamed we lost great ones like the Macho Man and Rowdy Roddy Piper yet Hogan remains.

@windhelmguard5295 6 лет назад

at least we still got the iron sheik.

@PewPewPark 6 лет назад

Windhelm Guard yes that is true.

@matthew.datcher 6 лет назад

I was in band while in school, and at the end of ninth, tenth, and eleventh grades I was in the band that played for commencement. Considering our school had 300 - 350 students per grade, we ended up having seemingly never-ending repeats during the play of Pomp and Circumstance. I grew to hate the song. When we were seniors, a few of us tried to get the processional changes (Rimsky-Korsakov's Procession of the Nobles was the favored replacement), but the administration wasn't hearing any of it. So, sadly, I had to march to that song as well. At least now, I don't ever have to hear the song ever again. High schools everywhere have killed the song for me.

@samanjj 6 лет назад

Matthew Datcher I think the original Hawaii 5-0 song would be an excellent alternate

@chasef4811 6 лет назад

I have the same experience.

@Addylillis 7 месяцев назад

I watched my school’s band teacher start to cry. A lot of my classmates (Class of 2018) were in band and I hate seeing teachers cry especially the good ones. They played it until the whole class was filed in. It took a lot as we had maybe 300 I’m not sure. For each grade.🤷🏽‍♀️

@brucewelty7684 6 лет назад

ANd it is such a BORING song to play ad infinitum.

@SadMarinersFan 6 лет назад

I had to play through the song 19 times at my highschool's graduation.

@lesliebeaumont9512 6 лет назад

Andrew Behrend .....yes, as a musician from NJ originally, I know what you mean!

@chasef4811 6 лет назад

Same

@barrocaspaula 6 лет назад

You didn't play the dammed music.

@kangakong 6 лет назад

Paula Barrocas probably have to pay royalties.

@hqqns 6 лет назад

kangakong it's 117 years old, I'm sure it's out of copyright by now $-)

@MathewWalls 6 лет назад

Copyright also applies to individual performances, so they'd need a royalty-free or public domain performance. Like this one: musopen.org/music/5220-pomp-and-circumstance-op-39/

@Pippinn13 6 лет назад

It would have been a little out of place in a today I found out video

@normanharvey976 6 лет назад

not really, there is music playing in the background as he is talking, its not load but it is there.

@Henchman_Holding_Wrench 6 лет назад

On a similar note: Why is _Entry Of The Gladiators_ by Julius Fucik the march that turned into the most famous circus theme?

@felonyx5123 6 лет назад

Gladiator combat was a bit like a particularly violent circus.

@hailtothevic 2 года назад

From what I've heard, circuses used ironically...until they didn't

@ericdodson3630 6 лет назад

This will forever be known as Macho Man Randy Savage's theme song. And yes, shouting "Oh yeah, dig it" in a gravely voice is highly frowned upon at most graduation ceremonies

@robtru84 2 года назад

It's a graduation song before it became his favorite song.

@ericdodson3630 2 года назад

@@robtru84 congratulations captain obvious, I bet you are just so much fun at parties

@aldrianca5328 2 года назад

Yes I am guilty of doing this. Got a good laugh out of everyone

@robtru84 Год назад

It was a graduation song before it became Macho Mans favorite song

@kirbymarchbarcena 6 лет назад

Well, graduation is a wonderful day indeed...until you realized how hard it is to find a job you studied and trained for many years.

@MC-up9nx 6 лет назад

Also was The Macho Man Randy Savage's entrance music.

@sarysa 6 лет назад

Pomp and Circumstance -- the "Freebird" of the Edwardian Era.

@krispyhappy Год назад

As an orchestra member this piece was ingrained into me, I can play (first violin part) from memory. How have I only now found this video.

@Wanderer628 6 лет назад

I remember an American friend came over and one night we played The Proms where they played Pomp and Circumstance and said American friend thought we didn't know that we were playing an American song. It was funny as hell watching his face when we told him that the song that was played in American graduations is a British tune extolling the British Empire to grow larger and larger.

@TheOtherBill 6 лет назад

Didn't Simon just say the music was written (1901) before the lyrics were written for the coronation (1902)? So the music was written by a British composer during the time the empire was no longer growing.

@calendarpage 6 лет назад

I used to see references to 'The Proms' and wonder why 1. they had proms in the UK , 2. why were they playing this kind of music for proms, and 3. why did they call them 'the' proms, plural? : ) I finally looked it up, now I know. : )

@Wanderer628 6 лет назад

TheOtherBill The British Empire was still growing. The end of ww1 added most of the German colonies to it's tally.

@Blaidd7542 Год назад

The British empire peaked in 1922 so the British empire sill had 2 decades or wider and wider.

@borinightmare 2 года назад

I always call it Macho Man Randy Savage's WWF theme song.

@Caterfree10 6 лет назад

...still not worth my band geek ass having to deal with this goddamn piece for six years of my life B|

@WaterShowsProd 6 лет назад

So, in typical fashion the reason it's played at graduations is because someone else played it at a graduation so we's gonna do it too. Brilliant. I actually can't remember much of anything about my graduation except waiting for the damned thing to be over.

@perrydowd9285 6 лет назад

It's played because it's good for your graduating classes to feel a sense of gravity & importance in between their four years of study, and their lifetime career serving coffee at Starbuck's. Come to think of it, we've got heaps of graduates over here in Western Australia, so where's the Starbuck's

@zenostagefour Год назад

Because they want the graduates to show the hidden style and dive deeper

@VampireFlutist 3 года назад

If the words “Pomp and Circumstance” dont throw you into a fit of rage, are you even a band kid?

@pulsar2049 2 года назад

nah bro, i'm an orchestra kid.

@ruikirisame1744 6 лет назад

my weeb brain thought he was talking about the vocaloid song.

@hongjoongsfluffyhat 6 лет назад

Rui Kirisame I knew he wasn't talking about the vocaloid one but it still played in my head lol

@basiI 6 лет назад

lol same

@Hillers62 4 года назад

What about Randy Savage's use in his into to the ring????

@deadfreightwest5956 6 лет назад

1:49 - "Farewell thy neighing steed and the shrill Trump..." If only!

@holyloli69420 6 лет назад

Happy with *25,000$* debt 😆

@Op-xq4kv 6 лет назад

Yeah actually, I think most would be relatively happy if it was only 25k

@Jeff_G1 6 лет назад

I would be super happy for only 25k LOL

@akrybion 6 лет назад

*laughs in European*

@TheRealityBin 6 лет назад

It took me four years of paying at about 180 a month to get it from 20,500 to 19,800. Math!

@derpimusmaximus8815 6 лет назад

I'm old, so I only owed £350 on a credit card by the end, and if I'd not been getting pished 4 or 5 nights a week while at university, I'd have owed nothing and got a better degree, too.

@hanwenyap 6 лет назад

To pay tribute to Randy Savage, of course.

@davidsiler5505 6 лет назад

It would have been a better video if "Pomp and Circumstance" was played in the background.

@GlamourNNail 6 лет назад

David Siler most likely would cause a copyright claim.

@davidsiler5505 6 лет назад

And proud of it!!!

@charlesajones77 6 лет назад

Procession and then Standing Around. Yep, that pretty well describes my college graduation. And the years that followed.

@grapeshot 6 лет назад

My graduation was so boring, they wouldn't let us throw our mortar boards up into the air.🎓🎓🎓

@Mandiness 6 лет назад

Washing the Spears 1973 same here. Apparently it was a safety hazard or something.

@terryboyer1342 6 лет назад

You might poke some bodies eye out! (in jewish mothers voice)

@IrishMike22 6 лет назад

Washing the Spears 1973 they wouldn't let you? Did they have 1,000 people standing next to 1,000 people ensuring not one person throws their hat up in the air? And even if that was the case, if you threw your hat up in the air the ceremony is in congratulations for already completing your education so what could they do? We put way too much emphasis on what 'they' or 'them' or 'those' people can do, why don't you just do what you want?

@grapeshot 6 лет назад

Mike Hartley I remember them saying something about it might be too disruptive. Really to be honest with you after 12 years of that shit give me my diploma. So I can get the hell up out of there.

@IrishMike22 6 лет назад

Washing the Spears 1973 I apologize if I sounded rude! I just reread my comment and it makes me sound like a douchebag. Sincerest apologies!

@surmatise 6 лет назад

The first Time I heard it at a graduation I thought the Macho man Randy Savage was about to make his way to the podium and elbow drop the principle.

@robtru84 2 года назад

What's with the Macho man Randy Savage comment

@surmatise 2 года назад

The macho man used pomp and circumstance for entrance music. As a kid I had only heard it as his entrance music so was surprised when it started playing at graduation

@robtru84 2 года назад

@@surmatise you mean his favorite song

@NIN10DOXD 6 лет назад

Because, educators love them some Randy Savage.

@michaelcoleman6228 6 лет назад

It was also used by Prof. Irwin Corry, the world's foremost authority. Sorry to say he died last year at the age of 102.

@mikefata6692 6 лет назад

Sorry, but the real reason is because Macho Man wants it played.

@shyrryllbroglin7438 2 года назад

Absolutely awesome 👏 song 🎧 🎶 🎵 .

@Kev167 2 года назад

Can I say, in other words, in the US, the tune stands for graduation, while in the UK, the tune stands for patriotism?

@honeyheart8215 2 года назад

Yup

@christelheadington1136 6 лет назад

Do Israeli schools play Pomp and Circumscion ?

@jordandurham8951 6 лет назад

Christel Headington Surely you mean Jewish..?

@christelheadington1136 6 лет назад

No, Israel would have Hebrew schools, in it's majority.

@pikachuthegayatheist6215 3 дня назад

So it depends the song it is usually played because traditional, but also religious belief, some Catholics believe that it is a prayer or blessing to the graduates journey in life, and their family.

@kaysi6605 6 лет назад

I'd loved to have that played at my graduation

@teddydabear8772 6 лет назад

I feel the whole graduation ceremony thing is more for the families of the graduate than for the graduate. Just a photo op. Much like how funerals are for the survivors rather than the deceased. In most graduations, the graduate receives a diploma holder and then get their actual diploma in the mail weeks later. You have done the work, and your name is entered into a scholastic database as an alumnus for a human resource department to call and verify. Big whoop because after a person has work experience in the field of study, HR department places more importance on prior employment. If self-employed, probably doesn't matter at all.

@PeterCCamilleri 6 лет назад

Quite common in Canada too.

@tiercel5561 6 лет назад

Same here in the Philippines, just not with bands.

@notnek202 Год назад

Canada does Everything we in the USA do.

@TheRealityBin 6 лет назад

Because their the cream of the crop! Oooooh Yeah!

@MakeMeThinkAgain 6 лет назад

When I was in Junior High Band we played this for HOURS twice a year. Then my family moved to a district with a different system and I never graduated at that level at all. So disappointing.

@DJEylisium 6 лет назад

Pomp and Circumstance reminds me of the education minister on SimCity4 when he gives you a mission and rewards you with a University...Only me? Okay...

@samanjj 6 лет назад

DJ Eylisium reminds me of the police academy movies

@Arcanua 4 месяца назад

While I no longer am US citizen, my high school let everyone pick the song when they walked to get their diploma, it just had to be "clean" when translated to English. I ended up walking to a song by Blutengel that was in German after I couldn't narrow down what I wanted. I just gave the list of songs a number and spun a wheel crossing them off as they came up. Nearly walked to something by HIM.

@erinnefessler8055 6 лет назад

Really? Allllll that talk and not even a note of the actually march played....I feel shorted Simon. COPYRIGHTS BE DAMNED!!!!!!

@jommydavi2197 6 лет назад

what copyrights? Elgar is deadddddd

@MathewWalls 6 лет назад

Individual performances are still subject to copyright, Jommy.

@mercuryman1250 Год назад

Before I knew about this I've always knew about this from Macho man Randy savage WWF and then school

@sleeeeep Год назад

WRONG!!!!! The real reason is because they must pay tribute to the Macho Man Randy Savage as he is the GOAT

@andkyrmar 6 лет назад

Clicked off at ‘US specific’. This channel only ever caters for the US audience. Time to unsubscribe. See ya.

@th3gr81 2 года назад

I pissed off my high school sweetheart by calling the song, “ Macho Man Randy Savage Theme”.

@oscarorozco7368 8 месяцев назад

I remember my graduation. I felt it was a beautiful moment that to this day it gave me chills and it was sweet and wonderful as well😀

@macsnafu 6 лет назад

Amazingly, RU-vid comments make you both smarter and stupider! ;-)

@8eileen1 6 лет назад

Well, you should have played it to give those who do not know title or composer but know the melody!! DUH!!

@fredred8371 6 лет назад

Really??? Ur not going to actually play the music? I'm down voting

@sMASHsound 6 лет назад

People are idiots... lol It was the keke challenge of the time.

@MegaMinerd 6 лет назад

Video suggestion: the origin of the name "mortar board". (Please link if you already did this)

@christelheadington1136 6 лет назад

Started at College of Masonry.

@pacman10182 6 лет назад

it looks like a mortar board

@teflonravager 6 лет назад

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-GASUtr8wQ1o.html

@grahampalmer 6 лет назад

tyler roberts .... exactly so, seems pretty obvious doesn't it.

@pacman10182 6 лет назад

Graham Palmer apparently Simon did a video on this already too

@scooterc7469 Год назад

Y’all got all wrong it’s Macho Man Randy Savage entrance music

@literally-just-a-leaf Год назад

So it's not because America thought it should get to be the mother of the free? That's a bit sad, but I suppose there can only be onr

@avrilvaz9074 6 лет назад

Am i the only one who thinks he looks similar to Johnny Sins?😂😂😂

@cat_luver16 2 года назад

My high-school is very new, so our senior year only had 140 students

@Schwert_San 2 года назад

When the Sound of Crippling Student Debt come in...

@Discosaturn 6 лет назад

I like the song so much better in 'Kingsman: The Secret Service'.

@seprishere 6 лет назад

Why do graduations only have the Trio? Why not the bridge?

@francoislacombe9071 6 лет назад

Where does the expression "rule of thumb" come from?

@JTRumpet491 6 лет назад

Didn't you already make this video a year or two ago?

@sj8233 Год назад

When you go to a smaller school you get to pick cool songs

@MindinViolet 6 лет назад

Because a graduation is a pompous circumstance.

@earlenewallace8445 6 лет назад

At my graduation we played " To Be Young, Gifted and Black " instead of Pomp and Circumstance. We took a vote on our choices of music for our graduation and it was the early 70's. To this day I can still hear the tune in my head. Pomp and Circumstance is still a stirring work.

@michaelwalton4017 6 лет назад

....Now...pay those student lones!

@DemocraticConfederalist33 3 месяца назад

Congrads to Class of 2024! (me)

@gudetamas 6 лет назад

Fuck I thought it was the vocaloid song

@LunaDragofelis 6 лет назад

I thought this was about the vocaloid somg

@MyLawschool 6 лет назад

On a side note, why do so many countries use the tune to God Save the Queen as their national anthem?

@Dave_Sisson 6 лет назад

The United Kingdom, Liechtenstein and who else?

@perrydowd9285 6 лет назад

When l was growing up in Australia, God Save the Queen was our national anthem. Then they changed it to Advance Australia Fair. Then the conservatives won office & they changed it back. Then the Labor Party got back in and it was Advance Australia Fair again. Then someone pointed out that the never sung second verse of Advance Australia Fair contained the lyrics "Their son's in fair Australia still keep a British soul." So they rewrote the song. Then someone realised that the song was all about Australias "sons", so they changed it again to Australian's all. But to answer your question why do so many countries have God Save The Queen. It's so we can have something to talk about when we're not beating the Poms at cricket.

@MyLawschool 6 лет назад

Dave Sisson the US has My Country Tis of Thee (though it’s not its anthem), i think Russia, Prussia and Austria once used it too.

@inisipisTV 6 лет назад

OK, now why do some schools also plays Verdi's Aida - Grand March in the graduation procession as well as Pomp and Circumstance in it's recessional march.

@Hillers62 4 года назад

The lyrics are: Land of hope and glory, mother of the free How shall we extol thee, who are born of thee? Wider still and wider shall thy bounds be set God, who made thee mighty, make thee mightier yet God, who made thee mighty, make thee mightier yet ...

@matthewjay660 6 лет назад

Play it, please.

@peachypeach 6 лет назад

Isn't it Graduation by Vitamin C or Baz Luhrmann, Everybody's Free to Wear Sunscreen

@seanp2035 6 лет назад

I played this for the 2018 graduation at a high school

@OceanCrazie 3 года назад

Didn't mention that "Pomp & Circumstance" is also played @ High school graduations as well...

@irritated888 6 лет назад

I had to look up the song, I avoid graduations like the plague. I recently started smoking in the hope I'm undergoing chemo during my kids highschool graduation.

@scottleft3672 6 лет назад

It was brilliant in....A Clockwork Orange.

@SimonRancourt 6 лет назад

It's also heard in Stanley Kubrick's "Clochwork Orange"

@advanceringnewholder 6 лет назад

i think it's vocaloid song

@erinjohnson-foster2357 6 лет назад

Simon please do the Royal crown Jewels PLEASE I love all of the British royal info and how you tell it (just saying) you are great! I love your shows!