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 ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Long before Iron Maiden discovered the eerie words of Coleridge’s “Rime of ...

First performed in 1937, Carmina Burana is a fascinating and provocative piece, the illustration of a “Theatrum mundi” in which music, movement and words are indistinguishable from each other. This ...

Music from Carl Orff's 'Carmina Burana,' featuring Marin Alsop conducting the Bournemouth Symphony, from a recording which will be released on the Naxos label in January 2007: If I could only take one ...

Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana is best known as concert music – a splashy piece for chorus, solo singers and orchestra. Orff’s music, inspired by a set of sometimes racy medieval poems, has been a ...

This Sunday, the Los Angeles Master Chorale will fill the sails of Walt Disney Concert Hall with that stormy, earwormy cantata by Carl Orff: “Carmina Burana.” The chorale will be joined by an ...

Our hosts share highlights from the Evansville Philharmonic's performance of Orff's Carmina Burana. It was written as a series of poems in Medieval times and transformed into songs of fickle fortune ...

Where: The California Theatre, 345 South First Street, downtown San Jose, 95113. Convenient, inexpensive parking at city-owned garage one-and-a-half blocks from the theater at San Carlos Street with ...

Even in these tough economic times, tickets fly right out of the box office when “Carmina Burana” is on the agenda. The perennially popular blockbuster, requiring huge choral and orchestral forces, ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. It's hard not to detect a little mischief in Richard Gill's eyes as he discusses the program for his upcoming Sydney Chamber Choir ...

Whether you know it as the great choral number from Carmina Burana or simply as The X Factor song, most of us have heard the magnificent ‘O Fortuna’. But what is the choir actually singing about? ‘O ...

The Los Angeles Master Chorale on Sunday will perform Carl Orff's "Carmina Burana," controversial music that has amplified epic movie moments for decades. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times) This ...