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In any kind of every type of music from any part of the world, you will find rhythm.” And that tells you a lot about his thinking: that percussion is the most basic element of music. And Orff had the Orff Method, which is practically the same idea, with percussion instruments.
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In that regard, I like compare him not so much to (Béla) Bartók but to (Zoltán) Kodály, because Kodály had a method how to teach kids music through singing. “I think Carmina Burana is a one-of-a-kind phenomenon, and it connects deeply with the rest of Carl Orff’s work - not only his work as a composer but his work as an educator.
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Guest conductor Vajda sees the emphasis on the power of dance-like rhythms to be fundamental to the crux of the Orff’s professional output: And we’re using a German pronunciation that highlights the consonants, both the beginning and the ends of these little syllables that go by.” “We’re singing syllables that are very carefully chiseled. That’s what the chorus does, the most memorable part of it,” says Townell. Preparing for the Orff opus, in German, requires a dedicated, technical approach. In rehearsals, Townell has frequently used the more lyrical and melodic choral works of Felix Mendelssohn as a kind of respite from the arduous technical demands of Orff’s vocal writing, which the music director says is meant first and foremost to inspire dance and conjure up “magical images.” “And so, from the start as you train (for) the piece, you have to be thinking, ‘Make a big shape with it, be that wheel that goes around and see the end before you get the beginning.’ ” “This is the kind of music that wants you to sing it very athletically, sing full-out, with all the force your body brings to bear,” explains Eric Townell, the Oratorio Society’s music director. It’s most likely that the words that Schmeller found were penned by itinerant academics and former priests who were letting off steam, cavorting and succumbing to amorous activities.
However, they were unearthed and published only in 1847 by musicologist Johann Andreas Schmeller. The source material for Carmina Burana ( Songs from the Beuern District) is an entire manuscript trove of lyrics from a Benedectine monastery in Bavaria that dates from the 1100s and 1200s. And that requires a lot of different sound colors.” But it has a story, and it gives you the tableaux, these pictures of medieval life. “But since it’s in Latin and not everybody reads the translation, people just go with the power of the music. “And what do college kids do? They drink and party and all that kind of stuff,” says Vajda. Vajda explains that they’re actually about the life of college kids.
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The song “O fortuna” from Carmina Burana has been used in dozens of movies and TV commercials, but most people have no idea what it or the other songs are about. “I like to say that this is among really the most popular choral pieces ever - definitely in the United States but all around the world,” says guest conductor Gregory Vajda, who will lead the orchestra and chorus of more than 150 singers in interpreting the work. The RPO will perform Carl Orff’s magnum opus, Carmina Burana - one of the most easily recognizable choral compositions of the last 120 years - with the Rochester Oratorio Society, the Bach Children’s Chorus and vocal soloists. The Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra’s 2014-15 concert season concludes June 4 and 6 with a full-on shout.
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