Daily News | An odd couple: Opera Philadelphia’s ‘Carmina Burana’ and ‘Credo’ by Margaret Bonds
The struggle for the right to vote. Seeing the worst in others and working to prove it. A devil on a mission to “narrow the opportunity of struggling human beings.”
of edgy staged works, shifted modes for its winter offering. Choruses, orchestra and vocal soloists presented the odd pairing of Orff’s, quiet by comparison and hardly known at all. The work speaks of pride, service, peace, liberty and harmony among all races, and when the section expressing a belief in patience arrives, you’re hit with a sudden wave of frustration and futility. Patience? You almost want to answer with Martin Luther King Jr.’s warning about the “tranquilizing drug of gradualism.”Bonds’ work doesn’t wow with deep or innovative musical ideas. But it does skillfully and often beautifully underline the emotions behind Du Bois’ words.
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