Carmina Burana (Orff)
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"Carl Orff developed a dramatic concept he called "Theatrum mundi" in which music, movement, and speech were inseparable. Although Carmina Burana was intended as a staged work involving dance, choreography, visual design and other stage action, the piece is now usually performed in concert halls as a cantata." --Sholem Stein |
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Carmina Burana is a scenic cantata composed by Carl Orff in 1935-1936, first staged in 1937. The work was initially described as degenerate music by local music critics, but later enthusiastically adopted by the Nazi regime. Orff first encountered the text in John Addington Symonds's 1884 publication, Wine, Women, and Song. Carmina Burana was first staged in Frankfurt on June 8 1937.
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