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Sep. 19th, 2005
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he_dreams_awake"Carmina Burana"
Sep. 19th, 2005 11:09 pmWhoa... a good pick-me-up when I needed one!!
One of my dreams has been to see a performance of Karl Orff's cantata/ballet "Carmina Burana": I've even dreamed up choreography for it (It's one of my all time favorite classical works), and I can sing just about every part of it (even the countertenor solo and most of the soprano solos, though my voice tend to crack on the high notes in "Dulcissima". Drat those coloratura soprano parts!). Well, one of the local PBS stations just showed a student production of it. It wasn't how I'd have choreographed it -- If I had the Boston Ballet at my disposal, I'd have had a lot more big round-dance type numbers, incorporating some medieval-type dance styles -- but it was still *GOOD*. One of the male solo dancers reminded me oddly of Desire, from the "Sandman" comics: at first I wasn't even sure he was a guy!
One of my dreams has been to see a performance of Karl Orff's cantata/ballet "Carmina Burana": I've even dreamed up choreography for it (It's one of my all time favorite classical works), and I can sing just about every part of it (even the countertenor solo and most of the soprano solos, though my voice tend to crack on the high notes in "Dulcissima". Drat those coloratura soprano parts!). Well, one of the local PBS stations just showed a student production of it. It wasn't how I'd have choreographed it -- If I had the Boston Ballet at my disposal, I'd have had a lot more big round-dance type numbers, incorporating some medieval-type dance styles -- but it was still *GOOD*. One of the male solo dancers reminded me oddly of Desire, from the "Sandman" comics: at first I wasn't even sure he was a guy!
