Classical is still alive and kicking. Familiar themes keep coming up in today's popular music. Love, tragedy, struggle, pain, glory, humility, pride. The whole schabang. What is music if it cannot express these ideas constantly. I listened to Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana (1935) today.
Carl Orff – O Fortuna
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