If not quite a one-hit wonder, Orff remains a somewhat enigmatic, even polarizing figure. His musical language-relentless rhythms, hammered-home melodies, crude harmonies-helped the Nazis sell their poison, and the same music helped sell laundry detergent a generation later. Louis in the 1970s.īut even if you never took a music class, you can surely hum the main hook to Orff’s “O Fortuna,” from his iconic Carmina Burana, whose ubiquity in the popular culture is, as Alex Ross memorably quipped, “proof that it contains no diabolical message, indeed that it contains no message whatsoever.” Orff’s music might not have a message, but it is an undeniably effective vehicle. Maybe you lucked out and got to attend an elementary school with a collection of Orff instruments, specially chosen percussion instruments tuned to sound harmonious even in (especially in!) untrained hands, and maybe you learned about pitch and meter by playing Orff-prescribed games and using your body in motion to express these abstractions, as my public grade-school classmates and I did, in an inner-ring suburb of St.
You probably had a grade-school music teacher who did. Don’t recognize the name? Doesn’t matter. If you are alive today, chances are you have been exposed to the influence of Orff.
Her movements In trutina mentis dubia and Dulcissime were close to perfect.” Timothy Robson, Backtrack, August 2018 Her ability to move instantly from the bottom of her range to the top while maintaining sweetness of sound served her well here. “Soprano Audrey Luna is perhaps best known for singing stratospheric soprano roles in Thomas Adès’s operas The Tempest and The Exterminating Angel. PLEASE NOTE: Carmina Burana addresses adult themes and contains some adult language. Join us for a special pre-concert talk with Music Director Fabio Luisi! The talks will take place from Horchow Hall starting at 6:30pm Thursday, Friday and Saturday and at 2:00pm on Sunday. Many may not have heard the Catulli Carmina, one of the two sequels Orff wrote to Carmina Burana, but, in a rare pairing, you will get to hear them both together as Orff intended with our four critically acclaimed soloists, the Dallas Symphony Chorus, the Dallas Symphony Children’s Chorus and the DSO. Catulli Carmina brings all of the boldness and audacious storytelling its more famous sibling piece is know for to complete a program that will thrill and delight. Based on medieval German poetry, Carmina Burana has it all: rhythmic and brooding choruses, lusty drinking songs, ballads cursing fickle lovers and gleaming paeans to love. Arguably, the most iconic choral work of the 20th century, Carmina Burana’s unforgettable opening, “O Fortuna,” has become a pop culture phenomenon.
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