O cruel fortune! So much gambling! Poverty! This hateful life! Such is the exclamatory chorus, sung in Medieval Latin, that ...

Carl Orff composed Carmina Burana in 1937, taking the text from a series of medieval poems by the same name from a monastery in Benediktbeuren, Bavaria. The title is derived from Latin and means ...

Carl Orff, born in July 1895, composed numerous pieces, including 18 stage works. Among these, he is best known for the thunderous cantata “Carmina Burana.” It was his first major work, one that he ...

Leonard Slatkin and the DSO perform Carl Orff's incomparable "Carmina Burana." Leonard Slatkin and the Detroit Symphony Orchestra Perform Carl Orff's incomparable Carmina Burana, accompanied by ...

The Reading Choral Society’s performance of Carl Orff’s “Carmina Burana,” under the astute direction of their new music director, Graham Bier, Sunday evening at the Miller Center for the Arts proved ...

‘Carmina Burana,” German composer Carl Orff’s 1936 cantata, is not only sensual it’s electrifying. Based on medieval poems, employing vocal soloists, large chorus and children’s orchestra, it has ...

Anyone who turns up the nose disapprovingly at Carl Orff’s Carmina burana is someone I’d not wish to associate with. The music may rely on basic means – pulsating rhythms and extended ostinatos. But ...

Carmina Burana ranks up there with Beethoven's Fifth as a perennial favorite among concert-goers. But Carl Orff's famous piece has inspired countless others to produce their own versions, from the ...