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"Tunes for Tyrants" (BBC 4) and "Carmina Burana"

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« on: October 11, 2017, 07:16:41 am »

. . . Carl Orff's "Carmina Burana". This work, she claimed, embodies "the toxic spirit" of its time. By implication she clearly believes it to be essentially "evil" since it appeals (she asserted) to our basest instincts. . . .

It would be more apt to say that of the Rite of Spring ballet.

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