What Crosses Your Mind When You Hear Carmina Burana?

[matcom]

It's one of my favorites of all time. We saw Trans Siberian Orchestra last weekend and they did a WONDERFUL version. It's a powerful piece.

So, what comes to mind when YOU hear it?

[rug]

1. Sean Hannity

[ironflange]

2. Happiness

Because it's so damn much fun to sing it in performance. Done it twice.

[XanaDUer]

3. The movie Excalibur...

Until the day I die.

[badgerpup]

7. Me too!

The knights riding out, all glorious in full armor, and the land springing into flower about them as they do so...


Our concert choir sang this a few years back...gods did I ever love doing that! It's a very demanding piece, but OH! So worth the effort.

Look up the words sometime...it's lusty and earthy and raw.

"Nunc per ludum dorsum nudum, fero tui sceleris."

"For the game, I bare my back to your whip."

[sarge43]

8. Yup

Stunning visual as Arthur and his knights ride out to their last battle.

[SOteric]

4. High Mass.

And really, there's at least a couple of reasons for that.

[petgoat]

5. Other: Devil Worship

I think my first exposure to it was in some movie that used it in the sound track.

[femmocrat]

6. Other: Figure skating.

I've seen a lot of pairs skaters use it in competition.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

9. Other: College.

Performed it in college choir about a million years ago.

[Aristus]

10. The ferocity of the piece takes on new meaning when you learn that

the poems Carl Orff based the piece on were written by monks driven mad by celibacy and sexual frustration. B-)

[Kat45]

11. My friend and her husband are in the Trans Siberian Orchestra

But I think a different ensemble tours the East Coast and the West Coast, and she goes with the West Coast group.

I've never seen them, and I have no idea what "Carmina Burana" is.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

12. Here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmina_Burana_%28Orff%29

[Little Wing]

13. A Clockwork Orange, Fight Club, The Omen, Conan the Destroyer

The background music for when I finally snap and massacre every living thing in the local Dunkin Donuts for taking too long. Even the cockroaches.

[matcom]

16. i've seen the movie

the cockroaches live :rofl:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

14. Roast Swan

[CBHagman]

15. Food, sex, gambling, drinking, good luck, bad luck.

Hey, folks, it's in the text!

http://www-astro.physics.ox.ac.uk/~rejs/carmlyr.html#track1

I know they use "O Fortuna" to promote every movie that comes down the pike. The trailer people need to GET A GRIP.

This is why I favor cultural education for all ages in the U.S.

[Boojatta]

17. bump

[TheBaldyMan]

18. a really old TV advert for Old Spice aftershave

it used to run on UK tv in the seventies and that was the music.

[Ramsey]

19. Wild uninhibited sex

Did I just get this thread locked?

Carmina Burana is one of my absolute favorite choral pieces. It hearkens to those pagan days when the human race wasn't so damn repressed! I've seen it performed many times, and have even sung in it once back in college.

My, you have good taste!

:loveya:

[KatyaR]

20. I always remember my old choirmaster telling us how it was very

"bawdy" for its time.

I love that piece--it's a great one to sing.

[sasquatch]

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