Carmina Burana News

The Modesto Symphony Orchestra presents an iconic piece of classical music tonight and Saturday, "Carmina Burana." Recognized by its opening "O Fortuna," Carl Orff's composition is based on 24 of the poems found in the medieval collection Carmina Burana.

Recognized by its opening "O Fortuna," Carl Orff's composition is based on 24 of the poems found in the medieval collection Carmina Burana.

Two Upstate choruses will offer concerts this week that touch on the theme of love.

Arova Contemporary Ballet has defined itself on two fronts - aerial silks, deftly negotiated Friday night by Jamie Kilgore Foust, and overarching collaborative programming, framed in the first half of "Fortuna," the program showing this weekend at Virginia Samford Theatre .

Music director Raymond Harvey pulled out all the stops Friday before a packed Miller Auditorium for the Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra's gigantic enterprise, Carl Orff's "Carmina Burana." The Grand Chorus and full KSO opened together with an explosive segment, "O Fortuna" , to establish the work's core: Life's inescapability from the Wheel of ... (more)