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Performed by the Saint Xavier University Women's and Men's ensembles combined, Carolyn Brady Riley, director, Monica Kropidlowski, accompanist, with Prof. Brett Baxter, Kyle Mosman, Skyla Wright, percussion, and Prof. Dan Surma, piano II.
The poem O Fortuna, part of the collection known as Carmina Burana, was discovered in 1803 at the Monastery of Benediktbeuren near Munich as part of a collection of Latin poetry written by the goliards dating back to the 12th century. Written exclusively for entertainment, Carmina Burana confronts issues similar to those we face today: love, sex, drinking, gambling, fate, and fortune. Because of their intended use, the text was written in vernacular Latin, medieval French, and German so as to be easily understood and accessible. In 1935-36, "O Fortuna" was set to music by German composer Carl Orff for his twenty-four-movement cantata entitled "Carmina Burana." It is the most famous movement and opens and closes the cycle. Orff's setting of the poem has become immensely popular and has been performed by countless classical music ensembles as well as popular artists. The composition appears in numerous movies and television commercials and has become a staple in popular culture, setting the mood for dramatic or cataclysmic situations.
Translation:
O Fortune, like the moon you are changeable, ever waxing
and waning;
hateful life first oppresses and then soothes as fancy takes it;
poverty and power, it melts them like ice.
Fate, monstrous and empty, you turning wheel, you are malevolent, your favor is idle and always fades, shadowed,
veiled, you plague me too.
I bare my back for the sport of your wickedness.
In prosperity or in virtue fate is against me,
Both in passion and in weakness fate always enslaves us.
So at this hour pluck the vibrating strings; because fate
brings down even the strong, everyone weep with me.
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