Somewhere Over the Rainbow

A colorful rainbow arches in a partly cloudy blue sky from the Northwest Corner Building and Pulitzer Hall over Low Library and Uris Hall at Columbia University.

March 17, 2023

We wish you a colorful weekend and St. Patrick's Day. May your days be as bright as this kaleidoscope rainbow capturing the sky.

And did you know that Over the Rainbow was voted the greatest song of the 20th century? 
Check out Over the Rainbow: The Story Behind the Song of the Century, a look at Music Professor Walter Frisch's history of the song that Judy Garland made a classic in the 1939 musical, The Wizard of Oz.


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