Carmina Burana
Two years ago my wife and I were planning the cheapest wedding we could imagine for ourselves. It was to be outdoors at her family's cabin in northern Minnesota and as bare bones as allowable by both families. We figured the most frugal route was to organize, erect, and generally produce everything ourselves. Such was the case when my future wife bestowed on me the task of choosing our wedding music. I fingered through our stack of CDs and found Orff's Carmina Burana. I knew that the opening three minutes or so of this title was the most intense music imaginable and that this would help create an indelible image on guests and family. My wife cried when I proposed our wedding march consist of a song she had only heard played when sociopaths with clout have an onscreen meltdown. I reassured her that Carmina Burana was originally written as a drinking song. "This is better?" she sobbed. We switched to something Baroque and sterile. Troy Palmen |
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