“The song made a decided hit in the hall and at dinner, where it was also given,” The Tribune reported. The tune was sung by the Notre Dame Glee Club, accompanied by the University orchestra. "New Notre Dame Song Making Hit, Shea Production Sung First Time at President’s Exercises,” the newspaper headline announced. However, the song made its debut on the Notre Dame campus on Decemin Washington Hall at an event honoring the University president, the South Bend Tribune reported on the front page in the next day's issue. Many books and other sources have erroneously reported that the song was first performed on Notre Dame's campus on Easter Sunday, 1909, in the rotunda of the Golden Dome. Shea would first perform the song publicly on the organ of the Second Congregational Church of Holyoke, Massachusetts, where Hammond was music director, soon after completing the composition with his brother in the winter of 1908. At the behest of his former music teacher, Professor William C. Shea, who earned degrees from Notre Dame in 19, wrote the original lyrics. Patrick's Cathedral in New York, wrote the music, and his brother, John F.
Shea, a 1905 Notre Dame graduate and organist at St. " Notre Dame Victory March" is the fight song for the University of Notre Dame. Please do not move this article until the discussion is closed. A request that this article title be changed to Victory March is under discussion.
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