December 02, 2025
From the depths of the ETV Tape Vault, we find an ETV Classic double-play of beauty in an offering that is both ballet and choral event ! The three-part ballet performed to Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana at the Township in Columbia, South Carolina under the auspices of Columbia Music Association, with original choreography by Anne Ricardson.
Árpád A. Darázs conducts the Columbia Philharmonic and directs the combined voices of the Columbia Choral Society, University of South Carolina Concert Choir, R.H. Fulmer, and Northside Middle School Choirs.
We hope you will enjoy this glorious production! For those of you who were in the Árpád A. Darázs choirs over the years, I know this will find a special place in your heart.
Side Notes
- Carl Heinrich Maria Orff July 1895 – 29 March 1982) was a German composer and music educator, who composed the cantata Carmina Burana (1937).
- Anne Richardson - S.C. Arts Awards: Dr. Anne S. Richardson
- Árpád A. Darázs July 1922 – December 1986 was a Hungarian-American music educator who was widely known as one of the few in the Western hemisphere as an authority on the Kodály method of choral instruction.
- Before he gained wide acclaim for his work at the University of South Carolina, he garnered acclaim with the success of the St. Kilian Boychoir of Farmingdale, New York. The boys' choir not only sang on the Sonny Fox show, but also on a Christmas album with Andre Kostelanetz, as well as with the Leonard Bernstein at the 20th Anniversary Celebration of the United Nations.
