Carl Orff - Music for 1936 Olympics

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This is a strange record. Its music that Carl Orff wrote for the 1936 German Olympics. A youth orchestra is conducted by Gunild Keetman. Although famous for Carmina Burana, Orff mostly wrote music for children to play, often collaborating with Keetman. Certainly not the bombast you would except from the Nazi's Olympics.

Channel: Music
Uploaded: October 26, 2007 at 3:58 pm
Author: merrihew

Length: 0:08:54
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Faust6688 (Wednesday 8th of October 2008 06:12:21 PM)
Interesting piece...has some of the bounciness that even some of "Carmina Burana" had.
bamjo (Monday 29th of September 2008 06:31:58 PM)
If any of you played simple instruments like xylophones or recorders in music class as children, those are known as "Orff instruments." He pioneered that method of teaching music to children by having them play and participate.
Neiko410 (Sunday 21st of September 2008 11:16:30 AM)
Stop pulling my teeth it hurts!!!! Oh the pain!!! I'm kidding. The mix is bad, it isn't a bad piece. You almost never hear this song anywhere!
Eragel1 (Friday 8th of August 2008 02:00:42 PM)
Excellent and fascinating!!!
NDallasguy70 (Monday 21st of July 2008 10:50:46 AM)
This record is a rare and significant find! Were it not for a copy of this same record found by Dr. Walter Panofsky of Bavarian Broadcasting in a Munich thrift store in 1948, the music education approach known as Orff Schulwerk would never have been continued and adapted for children and would not have made it to the United States in the 1960s. I wonder if the owner of this record would consider selling this record to the American Orff-Schulwerk Association for archiving and safekeeping.
lacarra (Thursday 17th of July 2008 03:00:27 PM)
All the opeople who love this music must hear the musica poetica; and it´s You Tube too!
paulostroff99 (Monday 14th of July 2008 09:30:54 PM)
All very interesting historically! One would never expect this music from the composer of Carmina Burana! Must be a case of a seriously split or dual personality.
DeepCore214 (Sunday 20th of July 2008 08:27:37 AM)
its called "mood". its different. it doesn't have to mean he had dual personalities or anything except creativity.
slugbug55113 (Monday 5th of May 2008 12:47:38 AM)
Fantastic! I'm substitute teaching at the Sholom school this week--this will make for wonderful a curriculum.
chrshammer (Saturday 5th of April 2008 05:09:51 PM)
I wish I could get this video to loop so I can listen to it again and again and again