CONWAY, Ark. (April 4, 2016) –
The Hendrix College Department of Music will present a performance
of Carmina Burana by Carl Orff on
Thursday, April 28, 7:30 p.m., in Staples Auditorium.
The performance features
the Hendrix College Choir, conducted by Dr. Andrew Morgan, along with the
newly-formed Hendrix Chorale (including students, staff, faculty, and community
members), and guest soloists.
Composed in 1935-1936, Orff's work is a 25-movement cantata
based on texts from a medieval poetry collection found in a Bavarian monastery.
The poems are in Latin, Middle High German, and Old French, and explore
themes of fortune and fate, the changing of the seasons, young love,
and the pleasures and perils of gambling, drinking, lust, and hedonism.
Used extensively in music for television and film, Orff's energetic and
dynamic composition is a favorite of classical music audiences worldwide.
The performance is free and open to the public. For more
information, contact Dr. Andrew Morgan, Director of the Hendrix College Choir,
at 501-450-1248 or morgan@hendrix.edu.
About Hendrix College
Hendrix College is a private
liberal arts college in Conway, Arkansas. Founded in 1876 and affiliated with
the United Methodist Church since 1884, Hendrix is featured in Colleges That Change Lives:
40 Schools That Will Change the Way You Think about Colleges and is nationally recognized in numerous college guides,
lists, and rankings for academic quality, community, innovation, and value. For
more information, visit www.hendrix.edu.