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...Carmina Burana," (1959) the first piece in the Tuesday night performance of the Alvin Ailey dance company's run at the Wang Center begins with the entire company dancing onto the stage dressed as monks. The costumes are in keeping with the music, a collection of songs and poems composed by renegade 13th-century monks who rejected their monastic vows. The robed dancers move onto the stage in an androgynous file...
Heralded again by a huge choral and orchestral extravaganza, the second annual festival of arts and culture at Harvard began yesterday. "Carmina Burana," the Carl Orff song cycle that featured the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra and the combined Holden Chapel choirs, had been hyped with flyers that paraphrased, "My virginity makes me frisky." Well, Frisky bodies have no end of things to do and see this weekend...
...both Le Mystere excursions is provided by the range of the voices and the surprise of the melodies. The music sounds African, Middle European and otherworldly, like a collision around a sharp mountain turn between Peter Gabriel's score for The Last Temptation of Christ and Carl Orff's Carmina Burana...
...Modesty is never absent ("I always repeat myself -- each composer has a musical calligraphy"), but self-defense comes in handy too, as with suggestions that parts of The Mission echo the choral medievalism of a Carl Orff war-horse: "There is nothing in The Mission that reminds one of Carmina Burana! When people hear the choir singing out loud and staccato, they believe that is Carmina Burana, but they are deaf people who don't understand!" But no excuses are really necessary for his music. He may, right now, be the best orchestral film composer in the world...
...ORFF: CARMINA BURANA (London). Conductor Riccardo Chailly gives Orff's Wheel of Fortune a lusty spin...