choral music
Buffalo Music: Carmina Burana
As the first of a trilogy of cantatas, Orff’s irreverent Carmina Burana draws from a 13th century compilation of vagabond songs and poems detailing fate’s fickleness, pagan delights, and corruption, with hypnotic sensuality and powerful rhythms. Hindemith’s reworked Symphonic Dances emerged from a discarded ballet collaboration.
Buffalo Gay Men’s Chorus adds new voices as altos, sopranos join in new choir
Robert Strauss, the artistic director of the Buffalo Gay Men’s Chorus, came away from a conference last summer with the conviction that Buffalo also needs sopranos and altos singing for social justice. That’s how a new chorus with many higher voices has come to be. Created through the BGMC, membership isn’t dependent on gender identity and it’s so new that the chorus doesn’t have a name yet. Mike Desmond has the story.