Valley singers may 'blow roof off' with 'Carmina Burana' performance

From: Oakland Tribune | Date: March 17, 2006| Author: Tammy Hansen, CONTRIBUTOR | Copyright information

'UBI EST antiquus meus amicus? Hinc equitavit eia, quis me amabit?"

Roughly translated, that's "Where is the lover I knew? Ah! He has ridden off! Oh! Who will love me? Ah?"

More than 100 singers will lament lost love, herald the coming of spring, pine for another and rail against fickle fate via Carl Orff's "Carmina Burana" Saturday at the First Presbyterian Church in Livermore.

The popular choral piece with a colored history will get a lush, dramatic presentation thank...

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