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Heritage Chorale
2012 Spring Concert
2012 Spring Concert
Saturday, May 5, 2012
7:30 p.m.
St. Mark's School
Performing Arts Center
25 Marlborough Road
Southborough, MA
Directions

Program:
Carl Orff:
   Carmina Burana

Ticket prices:
$20.00 - General Admission
$15.00 - Seniors and Students
Children 6 to 12 FREE
Tickets will be available for purchase at the door or from Chorale members.
Contributors during our 2011-2012 season may use Classical Choice tickets for this concert.

 

Carmina Burana

Rota Fortunae
(Fortune's Wheel)



This program is supported
in part by a grant from the Southborough Cultural Council, a local agency which is supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency

MCC  

The Heritage Chorale’s 75th Anniversary Season concludes with a performance of Carl Orff’s ever-popular Carmina Burana.  Particularly appropriate for this anniversary season of the Heritage Chorale, Carmina Burana was premiered 75 years ago (on June 8, 1937), in the same year that our chorus was founded.

The source of Orff’s texts for Carmina Burana was an impressive medieval manuscript, a collection of over 250 poems including love songs, drinking songs, clerical jests, and satirical moral poems.  Orff became acquainted with the manuscript in 1934, and was immediately seized with the desire to bring it to life through music.  Orff’s musical setting is filled with powerful driving rhythms, which create an atmosphere of wild abandon and physical exuberance, matching the often-ribald character of the vivid and colorful medieval poetry.

Conducted by John Finney, Carmina Burana will be performed in the version accompanied by two pianists and six percussionists, and will also feature members of the Handel and Haydn Society Youth Chorus (Heather Tryon, conductor).