Sorry about the delay... here's the details!
For those that are interested, it's $20 at the door, $15 in advance, or $10 if you get tickets from me.
If any of you know anyone who might review this... that would be cool ;-)
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The Choral Society of Grace Church
invite you to experience
Carl Orff's
CARMINA BURANA
Friday, October 18, 2002 at 8:00 p.m.
at Grace Church in New York
Broadway at East Tenth Street
Lucia Rivieccio, soprano
Jason Robinette, baritone
Simon Yates and Tim Mueller, pianists
John Maclay, conductor
Our opening concert of our 2002-2003 season features one of the most popular and beloved choral works of all time, arranged by the composer himself for two-piano accompaniment. Carmina Burana is a secular cantata for soloists, chorus and instruments and "magic images," and since its premiere in 1937 has remained Carl Orff's masterpiece. This unique work is divided into three sections devoted to the excitement of Spring, the debauchery of the tavern and the wholesomeness of courtly love, set against the backdrop of Fortune's fickle hand.
Orff distilled the texts used in Carmina Burana from a much larger collection of medieval religious and secular poetry discovered in the early 1800s in a Benedictine monastery in Bavaria ("Benedikt-Beuern" - hence the title). The manuscript, written and assembled by monks in the twelfth or thirteenth century, is a treasure trove of bawdy ballads and serious religious drama, containing one of the earliest Passion Plays as well as more earthy selections in medieval Latin, Old French and Middle High German. Like all churchmen of their day, the monks of the Carmina Burana were fully engaged in secular life, tending their crops and forests, collecting rents, operating breweries and hospices and producing literature and artwork in a world that drew no distinction between church and state. In text and style, Orff's re-telling of the Carmina Burana offers a window into the thoughts of these worldly monks, evoking a world of simple pleasures, colorful characters and life both inside and outside the cloister.
Tickets: Tickets cost $15.00 in advance, $20.00 the day of the concert, and are available from members of the Choral Society or from the Music Office at Grace Church (212.254.2000). General admission (doors open at 7:30 p.m.).
Directions: Grace Church is located at the corner of Broadway and East Tenth Street in the heart of Greenwich Village, and is conveniently located near the N-R (8th Street/NYU) and 4-5-6 (Union Square) subway lines.
