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This well known choral work is very dramatic and this performance
will be a first for the Bedworth Singers.
Tim Page of Meet the Music.org says
The walls shake, the floor rumbles and, inevitably, the audience leaps to its feet the moment the final chord has died away. Almost unknown only 50 years ago, Carl Orff’s secular cantata Carmina Burana went on to become the most commercially successful classical composition of the 20th century. The opening chorus, "O Fortuna," has been used incessantly in film (and, increasingly, on the dance floor) and if you have a friend who owns exactly one classical CD, if it isn't Handel's Messiah, chances are that it is Carmina Burana.
Carmina Burana, once heard, is impossible to forget, with its driving rhythms, its genuinely catchy tunes, and its slashing immediacy.
Choir In Concert !
Has the BBC programme “Last Choir Standing” sparked a desire to return to choral singing or to try it for the first time?
Following their recent successful concert at the Abbey Theatre, Nuneaton, the Bedworth Singers are currently rehearsing “Carmina Burana” for their next concert at Nicholas Chamberlain School on 15th. November. They will be continuing after the summer break on Thursday 21st August at Canon Maggs’ School, Derwent Road, in Bedworth at 7.30p.m. New members of all voices are very welcome, there are no auditions, as our Musical Director, David Bray, gives excellent training. A pleasant and productive time is enjoyed by all.
Preparations will soon also begin for the Christmas Concert, which will include all types pf music, religious and secular.
The choir organises several social events throughout the year to which family and friends are invited.
For more information contact Colin Simmons - Chairman 024 7637 4152 or Mike Hobday - Publicity 024 7654 3294
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