Carmina Burana
by Pacific Spirit ChoirSunday, 25 May 2025 from 3:00 PM (PDT) to 4:30 PM (PDT)West Vancouver United Church 2062 Esquimalt Avenue, West Vancouver, BC V7V 1S4Ticket Information
Overview
Join us for this performance of Carl Orff's Carmina Burana, in the version for choir, soloists, percussion, and piano.
Details
From the Wikipedia article: Carmina Burana is a cantata composed in 1935 and 1936 by Carl Orff, based on 24 poems from the medieval collection Carmina Burana. Its full Latin title is Carmina Burana: Cantiones profanae cantoribus et choris cantandae comitantibus instrumentis atque imaginibus magicis ("Songs of Beuern: Secular songs for singers and choruses to be sung together with instruments and magical images"). It was first performed by the Oper Frankfurt on 8 June 1937.