Music recap

Now that the day is gone, I'll finally get back to what I was planning on writing earlier today. As I said last night, Carmina Burana was excellent. To be honest, I didn't really know all that much about it, except for the song "Fortuna Imperatrix". Chances are that you know that song, as well, even if you don't realize it. It's used a lot, especially to convey a heavy, dark, dramatic scene. In fact, Jason was telling me that it's the song playing at the end of Apocolypse Now, when the start dicing up the guy. I don't really remember that, but then it's been many years since I've seen that film. Regardless, though, I really enjoyed that song, which was enough to get me to want to experience the rest of it.

The evening was not without its share of snags, however. It started off when we arrived at the castle. Jason, Natalie and I hadn't purchased advance tickets, because by the time both of them said they wanted to go there wasn't enough time to get advance tickets delivered. There were probably other ways to get reservations or tickets in beforehand, but to be honest I didn't feel like dealing with them once I saw that we could purchase tickets at the enterance the night of the show. However, by the time we arrived, the only non-reserved tickets left were the expensive ones selling at 44 EUR. Needless to say, we weren't fond of seeking those out. So we waited for the unclaimed, reserved tickets to go on sale. The end result was that the three of us had seats in three completely different sections. We tried all sitting together near my seat (which was the worst of the three). Our reasoning was that if single people approached us, we could offer the nicer seats to them. Unfortunately, a couple came up when we thought we were home free. We didnt' know what we were going to do, until right as the last call for seating rang out over the speakers, Jason strikes upon the idea that there are a significant number of empty seats in the expensive section. So we simply walk up and sit down. It ended up working out really great.

As for the show itself, it was superb. A dance accompanied the music, which definitely helped out as I had no more than a vague idea of what was supposed to be going on, since the entire piece was in Latin or Middle German. Actually, I did understand a good bit of the German portion, but that was only after I realized it was in German. In the end, though, it didn't matter that I couldn't logically understand what was going on; the emotions still got across, and anyway you could at least generally figure out what was going on from the dancing. There were times when some of the dancing got a little...sensual, but it was still excellent. I strongly recommend the show.

That's all for the time being. Now the moment has arrived for me to sleep.