Carl Orff News

Sometimes a little "Carmina Burana" can go along way... in a good way. Take the UC Davis University Chorus.

LOL, but Mozart didn't compose O Fortuna, Carl Orff did. Also, if more people actually knew the lyrics to O Fortuna, they'd stop using it for stupid crap like this.

There was no rain, no sweltering heat or mugginess during the November Art Walk Wednesday.

PRS for Music, the organisation that collects royalties on behalf of composers and songwriters, today reveals that the score for Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho tops the list of film theme tunes that have the UK Population hiding in horror, during the Halloween season.

People love good drinking songs -- so much so, as evidenced by Morning 40 Federation's official reunion show Saturday night at Voodoo Fest, that, eventually, bas clas barroom tunes can become beloved cultural artifacts.

Opens Thursday: This Minnesota Dance Theater production draws inspiration from 13th-century poetry written by a roving band of merry-making monks; these sensuous, often bawdy rhymes are still fresh despite their advanced age.

The artistic director of Dance Kaleidoscope has presented his vision of Carl Orff's 'Carmina Burana' several times since 1995, but never before with such a crowd at the front of the hall.

AN EXCITING opportunity has arisen for Halesowen residents to take part in what promises to be a classical extravaganza.

When: 7 p.m. Saturday. Where: Madame Walker Theatre, 617 Indiana Ave. Tickets: $25 adults; $20 seniors and children 12 and younger.

Wandering scholars, vagrant monks, bawdy poems and Old Spice all add up to one thing, Carl Orff's musical spectacular, Carmina Burana, writes Neil Crutchley .

When my son was about six months old, I enrolled him at the Pasadena Conservatory of Music and announced the move to my father, a college music professor at De Anza College in Northern California.

September 15, 2009 Comment on this article Two area youths will be among hundreds of singers performing with the San Antonio Symphony to celebrate its 70th anniversary during the Sept.

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The Battenkill Chorale, Janet McGhee, artistic director, is accepting new members for its 15th anniversary season.

ON Sept. 12 Trey Anastasio, the lead guitarist of the jam band Phish , will give the New York premiere of his concerto "Time Turns Elastic" with the New York Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall .

The San Antonio Symphony is about to begin it's 70th anniversary season, and you enjoy the dramatic season opener while supporting KPAC 88.3 FM.

Among this year's bonanza of musical anniversaries, what would have been Alfred Schnittke's 75th birthday has so far passed almost unnoticed.

Based on 24 medieval poems known as the "Songs for Beuern," Carmina Burana was the most widely staged cantata in the 20th century, but it has not showed in Shanghai for the last five years.

Brott Music Festival wraps up with the National Academy Orchestra and vocal guests performing Carl Orff's Carmina Burana and other works.

Radio 3 was on fine form yesterday. Composer of the Week began, featuring Carl Orff a ' for the first time.