Some of these poems, like O Fortuna, the first in Orff's work, tell of the cruel whims of Fortune and her wheel, a trope in poetry and imagery of the war-and plague-fraught Middle Ages: O Fortune, like the moon you are changeable, ever waxing and waning hateful life first oppresses and then soothes and fancy takes it, poverty and power, it melts them like ice. Even if you don't know this work by name, I'm sure you've heard it. Its opening is iconic: Carl Orff used poems written by medieval monks in a particular German monastery as the texts for the songs and choruses in Carmina Burana. ONE AUDIO PIECE - MUSIC All the talk of BalletMet's upcoming performances of Dwight Rhoden's ballet Carmina Burana has taken me down memory lane, to when, as a fourth-grader, I sang in the children's choir of an OSU School of Music performance of Carl Orff's Carmina Burana.
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