Rabrrrrrr sings "Carmina Burana" tonight! Free concert, in NYC

[Rabrrrrrr]

At Union Theological Seminary at 8 pm. It's the Union Seminary Choir, plus guests, plus some of the Princeton University Choir in our annual Shrove Tuesday madcap mayhem performance of Carmina Burana. Wear costume if you'd like, and after the show, enjoy some beer in the Union pub.

8 PM, James Chapel of Union Seminary, at 121st and Broadway. 1/9 train to 116th street, then walk north a few blocks.

It's always fun! It's not elegant, we're all amateurs, but we make up with gusto and volume what we might lack in proper rehearsal time. Though you wuill find actually very few wrong notes. It's a consistently good performance year after year.

[GOPisEvil]

1. Wow. I wish I could go. Sounds interesting.

:-)

[Blue-Jay]

2. OOooooooo Fortuna!

break a ... um.. lung (or something)

[Fovea]

3. I wish I could go.

Hell, I wish I could sing in it.

Will there be an online recording of it?

[Rabrrrrrr]

4. No, no recording.

At least, I doubt it. But one never knows. :-)

5. Do you attend UTS?

If you do, do you know about your trouble making alumni -- David Dellinger?

[Rabrrrrrr]

6. all Union alumni are trouble makers, if they're doing it right

:evilgrin:

But no, I don't know a David Dellinger.

7. He's about 90 years old

one of the Chicago Seven with Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin.

Should have said, do you know OF David Dellinger.

on edit here's a snippet or two

http://www.fact-index.com/d/da/david_dellinger.html

"Dellinger's dedication to anti-war causes began early in life. After graduating from Yale, Dellinger was studying in the Union Theological Seminary when World War II broke out. Despite his eligibility for a deferment as a seminary student, Dellinger refused to register for the draft and, as a result, was sentenced to three years in prison. Later, he actively opposed both the Korean War and the Bay of Pigs Invasion."

[Rabrrrrrr]

9. Excellent!

Lots of union alum making political trouble, marching in anti-war protests, peace protests, and civil rights protests. Probably the only seminary in the country that actively protested against WWII (though not all at Union did so, Neibuhr being one who supported the war) and had one guy in Germany trying to assassinate the Fuhrer (Bonnhoefer).

So, not surprised one of the Chicago Seven was a Union alum. :-)

Long history of political activism and social justice issues. A very important seminary.

Thanks for pointing out the Dellinger guy.

10. I just added some info in previous post

& no problem, glad to let you know about him.
He's a very interesting man and is still very active politically (or was a couple of years ago, haven't heard much from recently... he is around 92 or so by now)

"Before reading his autobiography, I knew and greatly admired Dave Dellinger. Or so I thought. After reading his remarkable story, my admiration changed to something more like awe. There can be few people in the world who have crafted there lives into something truly inspiring. This autobiography introduces us to one of them. — Noam Chomsky, from the duskjacket of From Yale to Jail"

[Burma Jones]

8. How Cool is That?

Damn, now I wish I still lived there.

[Loki]

11. That is going to be so cool, I wish I could be there

O Fortuna



O Fortuna O Fortune,
velut luna like the moon
statu variabilis, you are changeable,
semper crescis ever waxing
aut decrescis; and waning;
vita detestabilis hateful life
nunc obdurat first oppresses
et tunc curat and then soothes
ludo mentis aciem, as fancy takes it;
egestatem, poverty
potestatem and power
dissolvit ut glaciem. it melts them like ice.

[TrogL]

12. Don't stand too close to the gong

Or down range from the bass drum.

You'll go deaf.

[stopbush]

13. You say "Carmeena," I say "Carmahna,"

You say "Bureena," I say "Burahna,"
Carmeena, Carmahna, Bureena, Burahna,
Let's Carl the whole thing Orff.


Sorry.

[Rabrrrrrr]

14. LOL!

That's great!

[fortyfeetunder]

22. ROFL

That is too cute!!!

[GoddessOfGuinness]

15. Don't eat too much swan...

But have a blast! That's one of my faves! :nopity:

[Ramsey]

16. I used to sing with the PU choir

Actually I was officially in the Glee Club but we did lots of concerts with the Choir.

I LOVE Carmina Burana! I wish I could come.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

17. Portland went through a Carmina Burana craze a few years ago

Just about every group in town did it, culminating in a staging by the Oregon Ballet Theater in which the Song of the Roasted Swan served as the background to Leda and the Swan. :wtf:

Oh, well, have fun with the lusty melodies.

[Rabrrrrrr]

18. Aye! We did indeed have fun!

An excellent performance it was - of the eight years we've been doing it, I think tonight's might have been the best yet. Though last year we actually had a boys choir that helped out (the first time we'd added the boy's choir), and that was really cool.

But everyone was pretty well spot-on tonight.

And good think I decided to go join in - they only had three tenors, and me and my friend made it five, against a battery of 7 basses, about 14 altos and 8 sopranos.

A very good concert. I'm quite proud of myselF! Thoguh I have no voice left.

one thing about deciding last minute to go sing Carmina Burana is that my voice, of course, didn't have any rpactice lead-in time, so I blew it out at the end and only quiet sounds will come out now.

But it was worth it!!

[ironflange]

19. You're a lucky lucky man

To be able to do Carmina on an annual basis. I've only done it twice. It would probably be even more fun if you did all your drinking first.

:toast: :toast:

:beer: :beer: :beer:

[Rabrrrrrr]

21. Aye, and that we do

This year, we only had wine, though. Past years it's been whisky and beer. :-)

Maybe that's why the performance was better this year. :shrug:

And it's always fun - it's a smallish kind of chapel, we just have a good time, we have the audience sing the "nazaza nazaza nazaza" part, and in the section that has the women singing a very fun part, and the musical background is very dancelike, we have the audience (and choir) jingle their keys in time and also join in with the part that goes "ooh oooh" rising up a step over and over... can't think of the darn words right now, though.

And during the final long held note of the entire thing, we throw candy and bead necklaces into the audience.

Oh, and tonight, we had a very funny alumni sing the swan part - he's a wonderful ham, and sings it really scratchy and twirls while he sings, and in the third verse, our Rheinhold Niebuhr Professor of Christian Ethics (dressed in some wild, weirded out vested psudeo-African psudeo-Arabian-style costume with jewel-encrusted golden crown) chased him around with one of those clicky-clacky fake sets of teeth. Our conductor/painist was laughing quite heartily.

[bubblesby2002]

20. Hey Rabrrrrr I wished I could have been there

but it was a little far away for me to go. However, I hope it was a great time. I'll have a scotch tonight to celebrate for you. :-)

ps I'm still working on the rare and getting more rare single malts.

[SOteric]

23. I hope you didn't have to try for the colouratura part.

Boy howdy.

[Rabrrrrrr]

24. I sang high tenor

That's high enough, especially without a couple days to warm up to those high bastard notes. Tenors shouldn't be asked to sing into the soprano's realm. :-)

[blondeatlast]

25. I love "Carmina Burana." Would have loved to be there.

I'm certain you were splendid!