ROTFL! That took me back almost 30 years, to the time the UH University Chorus (hey, keyboardists were still required to take a large ensemble) performed Carmina Burana under three different conductors in three different halls... each conductor preferring a different flavor of Latin accent (classical Latin; church Latin; medieval German Latin). Yeah, we had parody lines for some of the numbers; are you surprised?
ellroon, we had the Choir Director from Hell. He was relentless and cranky... also very knowledgeable and possessed of superb craft as a conductor. We performed it at home of course at UH (church Latin), as accompaniment to Houston Ballet (classical Latin, and a dramatically beautiful dance, what we could see of it from the pit), and with the Corpus Christi Symphony, with three choirs combined (medieval German Latin, because the conductor was Cornelius Eberhardt).
I like Orff well enough, but as with any other rattle-the-rafters German composer, I have a quantity limit. :)
Ah, nice to hear you, too, have a quantity limit... after a session with certain compositions of Mahler or Wagner I want to kill things... not in a Hitler kind of way though, but in accidentally breaking the CD kind of way...
My husband has learned not to take those CDs on trips...
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Wow. I needed that.
My husband absolutely loves Orff. His music can drive me from the room if I'm not in the mood, it is that powerful!
And if you mean the translation, try this one!
ROTFL! That took me back almost 30 years, to the time the UH University Chorus (hey, keyboardists were still required to take a large ensemble) performed Carmina Burana under three different conductors in three different halls... each conductor preferring a different flavor of Latin accent (classical Latin; church Latin; medieval German Latin). Yeah, we had parody lines for some of the numbers; are you surprised?
Thanks; that was fun.
THREE different Carmina Buranas at the same time? You guys were more than serious!
ellroon, we had the Choir Director from Hell. He was relentless and cranky... also very knowledgeable and possessed of superb craft as a conductor. We performed it at home of course at UH (church Latin), as accompaniment to Houston Ballet (classical Latin, and a dramatically beautiful dance, what we could see of it from the pit), and with the Corpus Christi Symphony, with three choirs combined (medieval German Latin, because the conductor was Cornelius Eberhardt).
I like Orff well enough, but as with any other rattle-the-rafters German composer, I have a quantity limit. :)
Ah, nice to hear you, too, have a quantity limit... after a session with certain compositions of Mahler or Wagner I want to kill things... not in a Hitler kind of way though, but in accidentally breaking the CD kind of way...
My husband has learned not to take those CDs on trips...
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