Carmina Burana

Event Schedules

Meydenbauer Center

11100 NE 6th Street, Bellevue 98004

Dec 31 2011 - Dec 31 2011

Sat

More schedule information: Two performances: 7pm & 9:30pm

Event Description

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New Year's Eve with the Seattle Choral Company! For decades, music lovers have thronged to the concert hall to ring in the New Year in the style of Old Vienna with programs of Strauss waltzes. On December 31, 1991, the Seattle Choral Company began marking the occasion by presenting some very different but equally popular music: Carl Orff's Carmina Burana.

This setting of medieval monk's poetry might not seem an obvious choice for celebrating New Year's Eve, but upon reflection, it makes perfect sense. The work's structure - beginning and ending with an ode to the eternally circling Wheel of Fate (the famous chorus "O fortuna") nicely mirrors the experience of looking back on the past year and then forward to the new.

What's more, those medieval monks devoted a good deal of their poetry to the twin delights of love and ale, topics on the minds of many New Year's revelers by midnight!

Finally, Carmina Burana makes a big, exciting, glorious amount of noise -- perfect for a New Year's celebration! 

Join Maestro Freddie Coleman, the Seattle Choral Company, guest instrumentalists, and soloists in a concert celebration to ring in the New Year. Attend either the Early (7pm) or the Late (9:30pm) performance, depending on your evening plans.

A no-host bar will be provided in the Grand Lobby before both performances.

Seats for each performance are reserved, $65 for the center section and $55 for the sides.