Posted on 08/17/2008 12:25:47 PM PDT by LS
Hannity uses that is very "Omen"-esque after "Let Freedom Ring?" It dark, has a giant chorus, and is similar to "Battle of Fates" from "Star Wars".
I believe it is from Carl Orff’s “Carmina Burana”.
carmina burana
O Fortuna from Orff’s Carmina Burana
I have Carmina Burana and have often wondered: Is there a “genre” for music of this type? AntiChrist-movie-like is the only way I know to describe it.
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Why???
I just read a great article that was printed in the Catholic Parish monthly and it was about Hannity and well I just have to go get it ...
Hannity is a sell out.
He had a Legit Priest and a non legit Priest on his show and he asked ...ah heck I gotta print the article so no one makes assumptions.
Wow. A hundred times more impressive when you watch these people perform it. Wish they would have had a close-up of the tympani player in those last few bars where he is wailing.
The guy is a sell out to Fox.
Now I know many Catholics who know they have digresses and will NOT receive the Host because they are no longer the body/vessel.
Good for them. Does Hannity respect the Sacrament. Well Mr. Hannity?
Why what?
The awesomest battle music of all time, “O Fortuna” from the “Carmina Burana” by Carl Orff, second only to “Mars” by Gustav Holst for sheer rage-y goodness. My husband to be took my 9-yr-old daughter and me to see a live performance of the Carmina Burana for one of our first dates - My daughter became mesmerized, started singing opera, and is now an intelligence specialist/EOD trainee for the Airforce. It’s that powerful.
They are secular medieval fold poems sung in Latin, set to music during the 1930’s by Orff; the modern English lyrics to “O Fortuna” are as follows:
O Fortune,
like the moon
you are constantly changing,
ever growing
and waning;
hateful life
now oppresses
and then soothes
as fancy takes it;
poverty
and power
it melts them like ice.
Fate - monstrous
and empty,
you whirling wheel,
you are malevolent,
well-being is vain
and always fades to nothing,
shadowed
and veiled
you plague me too;
now through the game
I bring my bare back
to your villainy.
Fate, in health
and virtue,
is against me
driven on
and weighted down,
always enslaved.
So at this hour
without delay
pluck the vibrating strings;
since Fate
strikes down the strong man,
everyone weep with me!
Awesome. Take up your Claymore and follow ME!!!!
I think what is perhaps confusing is the primitive nature of some of the music. Orff used ancient poetry from the Bavarian monks and much of the lyrical content is definitly not of the sacred nature. Primitive rhythms and instruments create a colorful tapestry of some ancient (often bawdy) lyrics.
I love Carmina Burana, and in fact, after he wrote it, Orff “disowned” all his previous works and declared Carmina to be his best work.
I’ve seen it on stage, with a minimal amount of costuming, and a little bit of choreography. It’s quite exciting.
Oh yeah. And he has an irritating voice.
Battle of Fates from “The Phantom Menace” is also pretty inspiring.
Listen to Hannity on days when Rush is not on the air, he seems to have no clue what to say and then he will later change his position after Rush gives his. On H&C he just takes the opposite position of Colmes.
(Of course you can, because he's reading out LOUD. But the problem is, with a radio announcer, you shouldn't be able to tell that they are reading their advertisements.)
Cheers!
What is your interest in the song? Why do you want to know who performed it? The reason I ask is because it’s not something I’ve heard asked before. And since Hannity has had that as a bumper for some time I just thought it curious that someone would, seemingly out of the blue, ask about it. That’s all.
I am constantly asking about songs that I hear, but don't know the title to or who performs it.
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