I've liked Carl Orff's Carmina Burana for many years, since secondary school.
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I've only seen and heard it produced once, in Wellington back in 1979 as a New Zealand Ballet and Impulse Dance Theatre production. The music was taped but the sound system was pretty good. I remember the principal dancer Jon Trimmer performing the Olim lacus colueram (once I swam in lakes): Once I swam in lakes. He was dressed as a jester and was being roasted on a spit (the swan). This was a very powerful performance and I wish that I had a video clip of it.
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I heard, in a National Radio interview yesterday that Carmina Burana is going to be performed in Aucklands Holy Trinity Cathedral by three choirs - the NZ Secondary Students' Choir, New Zealand Youth Choir, and Voices New Zealand - forming a massed choir with over 150 singers. I wish I could be there to hear it. This, to me is the best use of grand churches - not the silly wittering from the altar and the pulpit but the majestic sounds of the organ and choirs.
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So where should Jesus perform the amazing miracle of transubstantiation?
ReplyDeleteI suggest the answer is right there in the word. He should perform it in a train sub-station like the other buskers and street performers. There'll be more foot traffic for a start.
ReplyDeleteDidn't Carl Orff have a brother named Phuch?
ReplyDeleteSorry, too hard to resist.
"May your gumboots be one inch shorter than the level of the flood water."
ReplyDeleteOld Irish saying.