Golden Anniversary Choral Spectacular - The Grant Park Music ...

Friday, June 29 and Saturday, June 30, 2012
lingud, tomahawkid, bumerangid. slings, tomahawks, boomerangs,
ammud, nooled, kivid, kaikad, bows and arrows, rocks and clubs,
küüned, hambad, luv ja sool, claws and teeth, sand and salt,
tuhk ja tõrv, napalm ja süsi. dust and tar, napalm and coal.
Uus ja kõige kaasaegsem tehnika Innovations, far-reaching, technical,
elektroonika viimne sõna, electronic, ultimate...
valmis liikuma igasse punkti. Ready to fly in any direction,
kõrvalekaldumatult sihti tabama, stay undeflected, striking target forcefully.
peatama, rivist välja lööma, Annihilate, knocking out of action,
hävitama, obliterate, render hopelessly impotent,
võitlusvõimetuks tegema, render hopelessly impotent,
haavama, leadmata kaotama. Killing, killing, with steel and iron!
tapma, tapma raua, terase, Killing, steel and iron, chromium,
kroomi, titaani, uraani, plutooniumi, titanium, uranium, plutonium, and
ja paljude teiste elementidega. multitudes of elements.
Ohoi sinda, rauda kurja. Ohoi cursed, evil iron!
mõõka sõja sünnitaja, Sword, begetter of all warfare!
rauda rähka, kulda kilpi, Golden guardian of the swamp ore,
sina leras, nurja tõugu! steel that’s kith and kin to evil.
Hurjuh sinda, rauda raiska! Fie upon you, evil iron!
Oleme ühesta soosta, You and I are from the same seed,
ühest seemnest me siginud, from the same earth we have sprouted.
sina maasta, mina maasta, From the same good soil we hearken,
musta muida me mõlemad. you and I, we share this planet,
Ühe maa pääl me elame, bound to share the earth together,
ühe maa sees kokku saame, earth that will us all recover,
maad meil küllalt sus mõlemal. earth enough for all, forever.
carMINa buraNa, caNTIoNES proFaNaE
(1935-1936; arranged 1956)
Carl Orff (1895-1982)
Arranged by Wilhelm Killmayer (born in 1927)
About thirty miles south of Munich, in the foothills of the Bavarian
Alps, is the abbey of Benediktbeuren. In 1803, a 13th-century codex
was discovered among its holdings that contains some 200 secular
poems that give a vivid, earthy portrait of Medieval life. Many
of these poems, attacking the defects of the Church, satirizing contemporary manners
and morals, criticizing the omnipotence of money, and praising the sensual joys of food,
drink and physical love, were written by an amorphous band known as “Goliards.” These
wandering scholars and ecclesiastics, who were often esteemed teachers and recipients
of courtly patronage, filled their worldly verses with images of self-indulgence that were
probably as much literary convention as biographical fact. The language they used was a
heady mixture of Latin, old German and old French. Some paleographic musical notation
appended to a few of the poems indicates that they were sung, but it is today so obscure as
to be indecipherable. This manuscript was published in 1847 by Johann Andreas Schmeller
under the title, Carmina Burana (“Songs of Beuren”), “carmina” being the plural of the Latin
word for song, “carmen.”
Carl orff encountered these lusty lyrics for the first time in the 1930s, and he was immediately
struck by their theatrical potential. Like Aaron Copland and Virgil Thomson in the United
States, orff at that time was searching for a simpler, more direct musical expression that
could immediately affect listeners. orff’s view, however, was more Teutonically philosophical
than that of the Americans, who were seeking a music for the common man, one related to
2012 Program Program Notes, Book Notes 2 A31 A3