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  Carmina Burana
The dating of the Carmina Burana is based on two main types of evidence, textual and paleographic (the study of handwriting styles).
As Orff's work illustrates, much of the Carmina Burana deals with basic human themes such as the fickleness of fortuna or luck, the inevitability of death, the joy and pain of love, and the predominance of human frailties over virtues (including several satires directly aimed at clerics).
Peter became a tutor to King William II of Sicily in 1167, and in 1173, went to England and served Henry II and Thomas á Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury, as a Latin secretary.
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  Amazon.com: Orff: Carmina Burana: Music: Bernd Weikl,Carl Orff,James Levine,Chicago Symphony Orchestra,June ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Carmina Burana, scenic cantata for soloists, choruses & orchestra In Taberna: Estuans interius
Carmina Burana, scenic cantata for soloists, choruses & orchestra In Taberna: Olim lacus colueram
Carmina Burana, scenic cantata for soloists, choruses & orchestra In Taberna: in taberna quando sumus
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 Carmina Burana (Orff) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Carmina Burana is a scenic cantata composed by Carl Orff between 1935 and 1936.
Carmina Burana was first staged in Frankfurt by the Frankfurt Opera on June 8, 1937 (Conductor: Bertil Wetzelsberger, Choir Cäcilienchor, staging by Otto Wälterlin and sets and costumes by Ludwig Sievert).
Carmina Burana thus has a controversial history due the period and location of its composition, not to mention the somewhat dubious political stance of its composer: it was embraced by the Nazi regime as a celebration of early Aryan culture, which it undoubtedly was.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Carmina_Burana_(Orff)   (1686 words)

  
 Shepherd School of Music - CARMINA BURANA
The word "carmina" is the plural of "carmen" (Latin for "songs"), and the entire title means "songs of Beuren." "Burana" refers to an anthology of medieval poetry discovered in 1803 in an old Bavarian monastery at Benediktbeuren.
Carl Orff found in these poems a rich source of material for a production combining dance and song, and he composed Carmina Burana in 1937 as a work to be performed either in concert or on the stage.
Carmina Burana is really one long hymn to the pleasures of life, youth, and beauty.
www.ruf.rice.edu /~musi/featured/carmina_burana.html   (388 words)

  
 Carmina Burana
Carmina Burana is one of the enduring masterpieces of the 20th Century – beloved by young and old, classics and "pops" lover alike.
Not only was Carmina Burana the first composition by Orff to attract world-wide attention, it was in a sense his very first published work because after the premier he wrote to his publisher: "Everything I have written to date and which you have, unfortunately, printed, can be destroyed".
Carmina Burana is a product of that style, featuring as it does a marked dependence on percussion, voice and flute employing generally simple, repetitive melodies and rhythms.
www.symphonypromusica.org /notes/9605.html   (1137 words)

  
 Carmina Burana - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Latin title Carmina Burana or Songs of Beuern was assigned by Johann Andreas Schmeller in 1847.
English lyric singer, Sarah Brightman covered two of the original Carmina Burana songs "O Fortuna" and "In Trutina", the first one being a trance/techno mix and the other the original lyric song with the London Orchestra
[1]Text of the Carmina Burana in both English and Latin, and Middle German and Latin.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Carmina_Burana   (891 words)

  
 Classical Net - Carl Orff - Carmina Burana - Frequently Asked Questions
Carmina Burana (from here-on abbreviated to CB) is a work which regularly comes up for discussion.
It is the author's hope that this document will provide some background information on this popular work and a guide to the available recordings.
Use of text, images, or any other copyrightable material contained in these pages, without the written permission of the copyright holder, except as specified in the Copyright Notice, is strictly prohibited.
www.classical.net /music/comp.lst/works/orff-cb/carmina.html   (139 words)

  
 Back Story of Carmina Burana at Cutler Majestic Theatre at Emerson College, Boston, MA
CARMINA BURANA is a collection of remarkable medieval poems set to music.
Orff's CARMINA BURANA premiered in Frankfurt, Germany in 1937.
Orff based CARMINA BURANA on 25 poems and songs taken from a collection featured in a manuscript translated as SONGS OF BEUREN that was written between 1220 and 1250.
www.maj.org /P2006/icam_carmina_story.html   (274 words)

  
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For Carmina Burana Monumental Opera the story of success began on the Königsplatz (King’s Square) in Munich at the „Classical Open Air“, presented every summer by ART CONCERTS.
The Carmina Burana Monumental Opera also gave a guest performance in Oslo, Norway as the cultural highlight of the city’s 1000-year-anniversary.
In November 2004 Carmina Burana Monumental Opera is entering the German leg of its current concert hall tour.
www.carmina-burana.com /downloads/tournee_2004e.doc   (516 words)

  
 NPR : The Lasting Appeal of Orff's 'Carmina Burana'
Weekend Edition Saturday, November 11, 2006 · Carl Orff's 1937 composition Carmina Burana remains one of the most popular pieces of the classical music repertoire.
At its largest, Carmina employs a chorus of 200 or more voices, an orchestra of 100 players and a children's choir of 50 or more, plus three soloists (soprano, tenor and baritone).
Carmina Burana has enjoyed popularity and longevity, in large part due to its remarkable crossover ability: Excerpts have been widely used in movie trailers and television commercials throughout the world.
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 Amazon.ca: Carmina Burana: Music: Carl Orff,Herbert Blomstedt,Vance George,San Francisco Symphony Orchestra,John ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Carmina Burana, scenic cantata for soloists, choruses & orchestra Uf Dem Anger: Floret silva nobilis
Carmina Burana, scenic cantata for soloists, choruses & orchestra Uf Dem Anger :Reie/Swaz hie gat umbe/Chume, chume, geselle min/Swaz hie gat umbe
Carmina Burana, scenic cantata for soloists, choruses & orchestra Blanziflor Et Helena: Ave Formossissima
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 Carmina Burana   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
When Carmina Burana premiered in Frankfurt in 1937, it thrust Orff and his ideas upon the musical world with great force.
A popular hit from the first performance, this cantata is based upon manuscripts of secular poems from the 12th or early 13th centuries, which were found in the libraries of the Benedictine Abbey near Koche, a Bavarian village about 30 km south of Munich.
Ultimately, Grove is forced to grumble that "...it is undeniable that Orff's technique produces...direct physical excitement-- the popularity of [Carmina Burana] as a choral cantata would bear that out." Our sentiments exactly.
www.napervillechorus.org /burananotes.html   (345 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Carmina Burana: Music: Carl Orff,Charles Dutoit,Montreal Symphony Orchestra,Beverly Hoch,Stanford Olsen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Carmina Burana, scenic cantata for soloists, choruses & orchestra
He conducted "Carmina Burana" last year at Saratoga and at Carnegie Hall and it was a a treat.
Enjoy this recording of Carmina Burana and then go off to war.
www.amazon.ca /Carmina-Burana-Charles-Dutoit/dp/B0000042GQ   (418 words)

  
 Carmina Burana MIDIs
Carmina Burana or "Songs of Benediktbeuern" is a collection of 13th-century stories, poems and songs which was discovered in 1803 at a monestary in Beuern, Bavaria, and has become one of the best-known sources for medieval European literature.
Orff's Carmina is divided into three parts framed by a prologue and an epilogue.
The theme of Carmina is spring, wine, love, all symbolic of divine creativity as well as pagan joy in the basic realities of life, the first principles of existence.
www.botproductions.com /music/carmina.html   (385 words)

  
 Carmina Burana
Carmina Burana is a large German student manuscript from which Orff drew his famous 20th century setting.
Although the manuscript, discovered in a Benedictine monastery in the mid-19th century and subsequently named Carmina Burana, is very extensive, the majority of the texts do not include melodies.
Although the Carmina Burana dates from c.1220, it is actually grouped technically with analogous songs and notations in the Cambridge Songbook of c.1000.
www.medieval.org /emfaq/cds/hmu335.htm   (391 words)

  
 Morbid Outlook - Carmina Burana
Nowdays, although he is also known as a prominent teacher and composer for children’s orchestra, it is for Carmina Burana and its companion pieces, Catulli Carmina (based on the works of Catullus) and Triumph of Aphrodite (based on verses of Sappho, Catullus, and Euripides) that he will always be most famous.
Be forewarned if you plan on exploring the second two pieces, as they aren’t as immediately appealing as Carmina Burana, though the sex gets very explicit in Catulli Carmina.
The use of drums is quite heavy by classical standards, Carmina Burana involving five percussionists.
www.morbidoutlook.com /music/articles/2000_01_carminaburana.html   (716 words)

  
 CARL ORFF: Carmina Burana
Carmina is mesmerizing, an amalgam of religious chant, pop tune, dance chorus and erotic aria.
Carmina Burana verges on becoming a pop classic.
It is ubiquitous as background to sporting events and advertising material as well as in the concert hall and on the theatre stage.
www.audaud.com /article.php?ArticleID=69   (390 words)

  
 Carmina Burana   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
This performance of Carmina Burana features the combined University of Kentucky Choirs, the Lexington Singers Children's Choir, The UK Symphony Orchestra.
Carmina Burana ('Songs of Beuren’ - 1937) is a stage piece by Carl Orff set to 13th-century Latin and German poems by the monks of Benediktbeuern.
Hear the famous opening measures of Carmina Burana, as performed by the UK Choristers and Lexington Children's Chorus in 1993 (2.4MB MP3).
www.uky.edu /FineArts/Music/calendar/carmina/welcome.html   (1079 words)

  
 UWSP "Carmina Burana"
Students in the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Concert Choir, Choral Union, and Symphony Orchestra will perform "Carmina Burana" at UWSP on Thursday, November 17 and Friday, November 18.
"Carmina Burana" is a collection of love and vagabond songs.
The lyrics were drawn from a collection of medieval texts with the same name and the music was written by German composer Carl Orff in 1937.
www.uwsp.edu /news/pr/rgCarminaBurana05.htm   (332 words)

  
 Carmina Burana
They form only a small part of the whole Carmina Burana, the name applied to a large collection of medieval poems which survive in a late medieval manuscript found in the early nineteenth century in southern Germany.
The Carmina Burana show attitudes not usually associated with the Middle Ages; we see a quite amoral attitude to sex, a fresh appreciation of nature, and a disrespect of the established church which even today's society would find hard to tolerate.
The Carmina Burana are not written in metres of Classical Latin poetry, which consisted of different arrangements of long and short syllables.
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 Carmina Burana News
Columbia Classical Ballet, under the direction of Radenko Pavlovich, launched its ninth season with Friday night's double feature of "Carmina Burana" and "Jekyll and Hyde." Obviously, "Jekyll and Hyde," the...
The text alone from Orff's undoubtedly most famous work, Carmina Burana, is a work of art in it's own right.
Carl Orff's masterpiece "Carmina Burana," the most popular choral work of the 20th century, forms the centerpiece of the Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra's opening night concert celebrating the 20-year...
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 Amazon.com: Carmina Burana: Music: Doug Hodges,Carl Orff,Michael Riesman,Larry Anderson,Jack Kripl,Ted Hall,Ray ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Carmina Burana, scenic cantata for soloists, choruses & orchestra Springtime.
Carmina Burana, scenic cantata for soloists, choruses & orchestra In the Tavern.
Carmina Burana, scenic cantata for soloists, choruses & orchestra The Court of Love.
www.amazon.com /Carmina-Burana-Michael-Riesman/dp/B0000071WR   (1252 words)

  
 Amazon.fr: Anonymous, Carmina Burana - Classique: Musique   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Carmina Burana from 13th Century Manuscripts par Dr. Konrad Ruhland, Anonymous, Carmina Burana Anonymous, et French Anonymous par Christophorus (CD audio - 1995)
Carmina Burana (XI-XIII Century) par Federica Doniselli, Theatrum Instrumentorum, Anonymous, et Carmina Burana Anonymous par Arts (CD audio - 1998)
Carmina Burana par Astrid Maugard, Bruno Boterf, Antoine Sicot, et Anonymous par Harmonia Mundi (CD audio)
www.amazon.fr /s/ref=dp_mu_cd_34/402-5183699-5600139?ie=UTF8&search-alias=classical&keywords=Anonymous%2C%20Carmina%20Burana   (769 words)

  
 DVD-Audio Review: Chorus and Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin (Thielemann) - ‘Orff: Carmina Burana’
Chorus and Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin (Thielemann) - ‘Orff: Carmina Burana’
After the Benediktbeuren collection was revealed and published in the nineteenth century, it became well known in literary circles, but it wasn’t until the verses were appropriated by German composer Carl Orff in the 1930’s that they achieved their modern fame.
From the urgent tones of the chorus in “O Fortuna” to Gerhard Stolze’s unforgettably over-the-top rendition of “Olim Lacus Colueram”, it is a performance saturated with theatrical intensity, and Jochum’s unerring pacing never fails to convince.
www.highfidelityreview.com /reviews/review.asp?reviewnumber=17287899   (3099 words)

  
 BalletMet - Carmina Burana
The stage and costumes in Carmina Burana will be as riveting as the dancing, with a 56-foot-long fence made of steel tubes welded together into a chaotic lattice.
Dwight Rhoden's ultra-intense Carmina Burana is set to Carl Orff's immensely popular cantata of the same name, which includes a chorus singing a collection of 13th century poems.
For a full translation of the Carmina Burana poems, visit www.classical.net.
www.balletmet.org /04Carmina.html   (448 words)

  
 Review: Carmina Burana   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The exhilarating energy of Carl Orff's bawdy cantata, Carmina Burana, was matched only by the sold-out crowd's thunderous ovations at its conclusion, as the Cincinnati May Festival opened its second weekend Friday night.
With James Conlon on the podium, small wonder that this was the most dramatic performance of Orff's popular work in recent memory.
The soloists in this electrifying Carmina Burana were baritone Richard Paul Fink, tenor Donald Kaasch and Korean-born opera diva Sumi Jo.
www.enquirer.com /editions/2000/05/28/loc_review_carmina.html   (604 words)

  
 CARMINA BURANA and BOLERO at Cutler Majesic Theatre Boston
CARMINA BURANA and BOLERO at Cutler Majesic Theatre Boston
Composer Carl Orff’s vision for Carmina Burana was monumental theatre combining music, words, and movement to create a truly unusual spectacle of fantasy that portrays medieval Europe at its most hedonistic.
Haunting choral passages, Gregorian style chants, powerful orchestrations, unusual lighting effects, projections, dancers in extraordinary costumes and some of the most driving percussion in classical music combine to create a work that pulsates with energy and is said to have an almost physical effect on the listener!
www.maj.org /P2006/icam_carmina.html   (179 words)

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