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Carmina Burana

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Carmina Burana

Medieval Latin verse miscellany compiled from the work of wandering 13th-century scholars and including secular (love songs and drinking songs) as well as religious verse. The composer Carl Orff wrote a cantata based on the material in 1937.


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At Montreal's Expo 67, Nault's Carmina Burana won wide acclaim.
Carmina Detroit showcases nineteen elegant poems by Dawn McDuffie, which are nicely organized into four sections taking the medieval music of Carmina Burana as a model with the seemingly incongruous themes of Chance, spring, Love, and modern day Detroit.
A grand and sometimes cheerfully kitsch ceremony combined children's choirs, Beethoven's Ode to Joy (Bosnia is desperate to join the EC), Orff's Carmina Burana, a plangent marching Turkish brass band, brave divers, (1) rhythmic dancers, slightly torpid, whirling dervishes, and the biggest bangs and flashes since the end of the civil war between Croats (Catholics) and Muslims in 1994.
 
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