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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 ...

Carl Orff brings the Middle Ages into the modern era with Carmina Burana, one of the best-loved choral works of the 20th century, and an exuberant celebration of the power of music’s simplest yet most ...

Highbrow and lowbrow. Sacred and profane. Closing its 2025 season on Aug. 15 and 16, the Grant Park Music Festival argued that the distance between those two poles is rarely as great as it appears.

Carmina Burana was the title of a collection of medieval Latin and German lyrics published in 1847, taken from a 13th century manuscript then in the possession of a Benedictine abbey near Munich. To ...

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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 ...

But first there was Stravinsky’s Symphony of Psalms. This is for me a Desert Island piece which I love beyond description, but I don’t think I would have fallen for it if that was the first time I had ...

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 ...

Carl Orff’s "Carmina Burana" at the Township in Columbia, South Carolina. This ballet, based on a medieval collection of poems, was performed to Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana at the Township in Columbia, ...

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 ...