News
What:
Carl Orff’s “Carmina Burana” will be performed by the PSU University Choir, the PSU Chamber Choir and the PSU Percussions and conducted by Professor Bruce Browne. Also on the program is “I Hate and I Love” by American composer Dominick Argento.
When:
Sunday,
November 13, 2005, 7:30 p.m.
Where:
First
Congregational Church, 1126 SW
Park Ave., Portland
Cost:
Tickets
available at the door; general admission $10; students and seniors $8; children
$6.
Contact:
For
more information please call the PSU Box Office at 503-725-3307 or the Music
Department at 503-725-3011.
Background:
Carl
Orff composed “Carmina Burana” using poetry of the Goliards, a group of clergy who wrote satirical Latin poetry in the 12th and 13th centuries. The Goliards were mainly
clerical students at the universities of France, Germany, Italy, and England, who
protested the growing contradictions within the Church, expressing themselves
through song, poetry and performance. Their poetry ranged from the religious to
the profane. This ambivalent, erotic, and angry poetry has also been preserved
in Argento’s work.
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