The Los Angeles Master Chorale on Sunday will perform Carl Orff's "Carmina Burana," controversial music that has amplified epic movie moments for decades. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times) This ...

Naomi Wilkinson explores Orff's 'O fortuna' from Carmina Burana with beautiful animation. Fortune spins her wheel. Who will win, who will lose? Inspired by medieval literature, ‘O fortuna’ is one of ...

Carmina Burana ranks up there with Beethoven's Fifth as a perennial favorite among concert-goers. But Carl Orff's famous piece has inspired countless others to produce their own versions, from the ...

The wandering scholars and wayward monks who composed “Carmina Burana” would be surprised and pleased to hear how Carl Orff and his musical interpreters have treated their secular poem/songs on the ...

Even in these tough economic times, tickets fly right out of the box office when “Carmina Burana” is on the agenda. The perennially popular blockbuster, requiring huge choral and orchestral forces, ...

To anyone concerned about dwindling audiences for classical music, it can only be heartening to see some 14,000 people streaming into the O2 Arena to hear one of the 20th century's most influential ...

This Sunday, the Los Angeles Master Chorale will fill the sails of Walt Disney Concert Hall with that stormy, earwormy cantata by Carl Orff: “Carmina Burana.” The chorale will be joined by an ...

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