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Carmina Burana

Presented by Music City Community Chorus at Bicentennial Capitol Mall State Park

June 12, 2010

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The Music City Community Chorus will be performing Carmina Burana by Carl Orff on Saturday, June 12 in the Bicentennial Mall Amphitheatre. Hosted by the Friends of the Bicentennial Mall, it will be part of a two-day summer celebration.

This piece is based on the Carmina Burana, an important collection of Latin and German Goliard poems discovered in 1803 in the library of the Benedictine monastery of Benediktbeuern, near Munich. Written by monks and minstrels, the collection appealed to Orff because of the variety of its humorous, sad, and suggestive verses. He selected about twenty featuring the wheel of fortune and arranged them into bawdy songs for soloists and chorus, accompanied by instruments and magic images.

Carmina Burana forms the first part of a trilogy of staged cantatas called Trionfi (Triumphs), all based on Latin texts. The other two parts are Catulli Carmina and Trionfo di Afrodite. The first performance, in 1937, was a stylistic breakthrough, and brought Orff instant fame. Orff regarded Carmina Burana as the real beginning of his career, and ordered his publisher to destroy all his previous works, an instruction that fortunately was disregarded.
 

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    Bicentennial Capitol Mall State Park

    600 James Robertson Parkway
    Nashville, TN 37243

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    June 12, 2010

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