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As I type this, I'm listening to selections from Carl Orff's Carmina Burana on the local classical radio station and reminiscing about singing this amazingly percussive work in college. For an engineering school, RPI - AKA Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute - had a surprisingly good chorus (although it was called a "glee club", a name which I always thought was amusing as heck). Our Christmas Carols concert (long before it was politically incorrect to call such an event by such a name) was attended by a crowd of over 5,000. The Spring Concert (not yet politically incorrectly named) always included one of the massive warhorses of the choral universe. Attendance was fewer in number but the enthusiasm shown by our audiences was, if anything, at a higher pitch.
Anyway, back to Carmina... This is one of those classical pieces that many people have heard in snippets here and there in movies, TV shows, and the odd commercial yet never know by name. It takes just under an hour to perform, requires great precision in the singing of the Latin and low German lyrics, and has a voice killing climax. We loved it. So much so in fact that it was decided to memorialize our performance on a vinyl LP (yes, kids, that's called a 'record'). I still have it somewhere in a box in storage.
All of this came back to me in a flash of recollection. Wow
Anyway, back to Carmina... This is one of those classical pieces that many people have heard in snippets here and there in movies, TV shows, and the odd commercial yet never know by name. It takes just under an hour to perform, requires great precision in the singing of the Latin and low German lyrics, and has a voice killing climax. We loved it. So much so in fact that it was decided to memorialize our performance on a vinyl LP (yes, kids, that's called a 'record'). I still have it somewhere in a box in storage.
All of this came back to me in a flash of recollection. Wow
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