On Orff

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Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise: World War II Music:

[Strauss and Orff's] surrender to Nazi overtures is an ineradicable stain on the biography of each; but the music itself commits no sins simply by being and remaining popular. That “Carmina Burana” has appeared in hundreds of films and television commercials is proof that it contains no diabolical message, indeed that it contains no message whatsoever.

Comments

[thelongshot.livejournal.com]

And like Strauss' "Also sprach Zarathustra", most people nowadays only know the opening of the piece.