Major Works Concert

Event Description

The Biola Chorale and Symphony Orchestra join in a performance of "Carmina Burana" by Carl Orff.

Carmina Burana (subtitled a "scenic cantata") is a setting of twenty-five poems and student songs in medieval Latin and Low German. Although none of the poems is identifiably the work of a particular author, traditionally the poets have been identified as vagrant students, vagabond monks and minor clerics. The poems are a commentary on medieval life and touch on a range of human activity, including the church, state, society, and the individual. The defects of the church, state and manners are satirized, and complaints on the omnipotence of money and the decline in moral values are expressed in lyrics on the subjects of spring, love, the sensual joys of food, drink and physical love.

From the liner notes of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus recording, Robert Shaw, Conductor, Telarc CD-80056