Posts Tagged ‘Carmina Burana’
Monday 09/24/12 New York Philharmonic This Week
11:00 PM Conductor: Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos Soloist: Nicholas Phan, tenor Brooklyn Youth Chorus Falla: Excerpts from Atlantida Orff: Carmina Burana Encore: Stravinsky: Firebird Suite (1919)
Can flash mobs save classical music?
Classical music fans are constantly searching for ways to introduce this wonderful art form to others. Those of us who make a living by writing, performing, teaching, or *ahem* playing the stuff on the radio tend to feel an extra sense of urgency – not only would we like to attract new fans, we want […]
A Rocking First Time!
My father was not a fan of television, so as a child I spent a good deal of time in front of a record player listening to my mother’s classical and folk music. There are photographs of me as a 4 year old sitting in my rocking chair, holding my beloved stuffed dog listening intently […]
Oh Four Tuna
Who among us has never misheard the lyrics to a piece of music & gotten a good laugh when we found out what the real words are? Some of us – myself included – also like to make up new lyrics to familiar tunes, not that we’d ever sing them in performance. Oh, no, singers […]
Tuesday 03/27/12 Chicago Symphony Orchestra
11:00 PM Conductor: Riccardo Muti CSO Chorus Smirnov: Space Odyssey (World Premiere) Haydn: Symphony No 89 in F Major Schubert: Symphony No 3 in D Major, D 200 Orff: Carmina Burana
Delicious Terror
My mother’s favorite recording of Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana is the 1960 performance with Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra. She fancies tenor Rudolf Petrak’s roasting swan. As a five year old this album cover elicited delicious terror in me and so did the music! As it played, I studied the cover shivering at the […]
