Klarinet Archive - Posting 000941.txt from 2000/04

From: "Kevin Fay (LCA)" <kevinfay@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Carmina Burana
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2000 08:04:15 -0400

Cindy Herel asked re CB:

<<<I want it all: Thoughts, anecdotes, web sites, etc. I'm in the mood for
a fun and intelligent thread. (If I've missed a previous discussion, just
give me something new.)>>>

Musings--

My lovely wife is a serious convert to the Cult of Orff. She spent some
years as an elementary music educator, incorporating much of his program.
Consequently, my garage is booby-trapped with all manner of hand percussion
instruments, loose xylophone bars and a general compendium of kid stuff.

I can accept that Mr. Orff was a pedagogical giant. I wish, though, that he
didn't take it out on *me* by writing this overbearing, played-to-death,
pinnacle of tediocrity potboiler. I could live to a ripe old age never
playing it again -- and be happy.

I'm not so sure that I like the thought of Carl Orff around kids. Have you
ever read the translation of the poems? They goes something like this:

-- "I'm a young virgin, and oh-so-horny. Do Me!" (Apologies to those
sensitive members of the list, but this is in fact not far off the mark).

-- I'm a goose. I'm cooking. It hurts.

-- I'm a drunk old cleric. Let's drink.

-- We're in the tavern, and like to drink. Let's drink. And drink. And
drink. And drink.

-- My spirit is strong, but that young hunk is soooo cute!

Just because the filthy parts are in Latin doesn't me it ain't porn. You
have to expose children to it, moreover, because it's scored for a
children's choir as part of the cast of thousands.

I once played a set of CB in a Baptist church. Without a doubt, I get
another 1,000 years in Purgatory for that one.

Final question/thought -- why is everything repeated 3 times?

kjf

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