Overview
Carmina burana
Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor | Meechot Marrero, soprano | Randall Scotting, countertenor | Sidney Outlaw, baritone
Nashville Symphony Chorus | Tucker Biddlecombe, chorus director
Blair Children’s Chorus | Mary Biddlecombe, children's chorus director
Alban Berg: Seven Early Songs
Gustav Mahler: Songs of the Wayfarer
Carl Orff: Carmina burana
We end our season with Orff’s Carmina burana, in all its magnificent, carnal beauty. Giancarlo Guerrero programmed it — in its original form — to showcase the powerful forces of the Nashville Symphony and Chorus. On the first half of the program, our soloists in the Orff treat us to Alban Berg’s Seven Early Songs and the autobiographical Songs of the Wayfarer of Mahler, who compared his own life to “a traveling journeyman…wandering on in solitude.”