Live from the township in Columbia, South Carolina, The South Carolina Educational Radio and Television networks present a stereo simulcast of Carl Orff's Carmina Burana.

The performance will be danced by members of the Columbia City Ballet to original choreography by Ann Richardson.

The ballet will be accompanied by the combined voices of the Columbia Choral Society, the University of South Carolina Concert Choir, and the RH Fulmer and Northside Middle School Choruses and the Columbia Philharmonic Orchestra, all under the combined direction of Arpad Dhiraj.

Vocal soloists include soprano Lani Palmer, baritone Richard Cohnet, and tenor Walter Cuttino.

The entire stage production is under the auspices of the Columbia Music Festival Association.

Carmina Burana is a choreographic pageant of life, love and death set in the Middle Ages.

The prolog introduce fate, which governs all life, from king to priest to peasant.

Part one, "In the Spring" is devoted to the frolic of youth and to the antics of Cupid, whose arrows bring forth love.

Part two, subtitled "In the Tavern", displays profane love in its vulgar, often violent aspects.

Part three, or "Courtly Love", unites a young couple in holy love, only to be ended in the epilog by fate, whom Cupid now recognizes as death himself, which no living creature can escape.

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