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derby378 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-27-07 11:13 PM
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The best music ever to come out of Nazi Germany
If anything superior to Carl Orff's Carmina Burana came out of Nazi Germany, I sure as hell don't know about it.

O Fortuna
velut luna
statu variabilis,
semper crescis
aut decrescis;
vita detestabilis
nunc obdurat
et tunc curat
ludo mentis aciem,
egestatem,
potestatem
dissolvit ut glaciem.

Sors immanis
et inanis,
rota tu volubilis,
status malus,
vana salus
semper dissolubilis,
obumbrata
et velata
michi quoque niteris;
nunc per ludum
dorsum nudum
fero tui sceleris.

Sors salutis
et virtutis
michi nunc contraria,
est affectus
et defectus
semper in angaria.
Hac in hora
sine mora
corde pulsum tangite;
quod per sortem
sternit fortem,
mecum omnes plangite!

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Blue-Jay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-27-07 11:24 PM
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1. Clarification:
Although it has been a point of debate for many years, Orff publicly disavowed any relationship with the Nazi party. His methods of teaching music in the public schools (paired with the theories of Jean Piaget) are still taught today.
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derby378 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-27-07 11:51 PM
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2. Duly noted...
In addition, Werner Heisenberg (of the famous Uncertainty Principle) sided with Hitler's government not because he was a Nazi - he never joined the National Socialist Party - but because he was a fervent German who would never think of turning against his homeland.
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