{"id":438,"date":"2007-06-25T17:51:34","date_gmt":"2007-06-25T07:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.msnaughty.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/25\/carmina-burana-love-sex-and-drinking\/"},"modified":"2007-06-25T17:51:34","modified_gmt":"2007-06-25T07:51:34","slug":"carmina-burana-love-sex-and-drinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/25\/carmina-burana-love-sex-and-drinking\/","title":{"rendered":"Carmina Burana: Love, Sex and Drinking"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nOn the weekend I went to see a performance of Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana<\/em>. I’d always loved the O Fortuna<\/em> chorus, since I first saw it in the film Excalibur <\/em>many years ago. That piece of music inspired me to go out and buy my first classical CD. And on Saturday I got off my bum and went to see the full thing, complete with hundreds of singers and a full orchestra. I loved it. I haven’t gone to many classical concerts in my life but I might be a convert after this.<\/p>\n

I’ve since looked up the translation of the lyrics<\/a>, which are in Latin and High German. It turns out the cantata is a profane pagan celebration of fortune, Spring, drinking and sex. Now that’s my kind of music!<\/p>\n

A few choice lyrics:
\nMy virginity
\nmakes me frisky,
\nmy simplicity
\nholds me back<\/em><\/p>\n

and<\/p>\n

May God grant, may the gods grant
\nwhat I have in mind:
\nthat I may loose
\nthe chains of her virginity. Ah! <\/em><\/p>\n

and<\/p>\n

If a boy with a girl
\ntarries in a little room,
\nhappy is their coupling.
\nLove rises up,
\nand between them
\nprudery is driven away,
\nan ineffable game begins
\nin their limbs, arms and lips.<\/em><\/p>\n

The video above makes use of the most famous end section and is a dance interpretation performed by the Birmingham Royal Ballet. Orff originally intended his piece to include dance but it’s rarely performed that way. The one above is quite a thing to watch, what with body-stockinged dancers (complete with nipples), a man in a loincloth, guys in drag and Lady Fortune in short skirt and high heels. <\/p>\n

The end result looks like what would happen if the models from Robert Palmer’s Addicted To Love<\/em> video escaped into the opera house. Kind of weird, but kind of cool too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On the weekend I went to see a performance of Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana. I’d always loved the O Fortuna chorus, since I first saw it in the film Excalibur many years ago. That piece of music inspired me to go out and buy my first classical CD. And on Saturday I got off my bum and went to see the full thing, complete with hundreds of singers and a Read More …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-popular-culture"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t