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...Carmina Burana, a 1936 cantata based on writings collected by a 13th century Benedictine monk, Orff used simple, vigorous tunes and choral chants to celebrate the joys of food, drink and love. He pared down to an even more stylized primitivism in his Antigonae (1947-48) and Oedipus der Tyrann...
...composer. Hours, or even minutes, of Orff have indeed often proved too much for some tradition-minded audiences in Europe and the U.S. But last week crowds were thronging to the Stuttgart Opera House for a solid week of Composer Orff's works, including his latest: Oedipus der Tyrann, a highly individual dissertation on the Sophocles tragedy...
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