Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Composer Carl Orff most certainly would never have imagined having his most ...

In 13th century Bavaria, a song-loving crew of university and monastery dropouts put together what might be considered the first boxed set: a collection of lyrics that celebrated religion, love, and a ...

I thought I was the first guy to have a 10-hours-long sexual encounter with the goddess Venus herself. As it turns out, I’m 800 years late, since someone shared just such an experience in the ...

“Carmina Burana” is like rock music of the early 20th century, explains Betsy Cook Weber, director of the Houston Symphony Chorus. With haunting medieval chants set to a spine-tingling composition, ...

Gospel jubilation doesn’t come instantly to mind when you think of Carl Orff’s “Carmina Burana.” But in the composer’s scaled-down version of his “scenic cantata” — scored for two pianists and three ...

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 ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - This Thursday night, a musical delight based on 24 medieval poems of the same name - Carmina Burana. The University of South Carolina Symphony Orchestra presents the bold ...

The term “bananas” does not often apply to an orchestral performance, but for “Carmina Burana” it fits. Carl Orff’s cockeyed 1935-36 cantata has a checkered past, to say the least. Its popularity ...

Generally, a classical-music concert has that one big piece that obviously qualifies as the “headliner,” the big draw for the show. But when you program “Carmina Burana” and “Rhapsody in Blue” on the ...

Even if you think you have never heard of the music from “Carmina Burana,” written by Carl Orff in the 1930s, you have. Part of it is that dramatic, crescendo-building music used in television ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. "O Fortuna!", one of the most popular and exhilarating choral movements in ...