(Beuren is a portion of Germany's Bavaria region.) The performers were soprano Maeve Hoglund, tenor Patrick Muehleise, and baritone Christian Bowers, who were joined by the Fort Wayne Philharmonic Chorus (prepared by Benjamin Rivera), the Fort Wayne Children's Chorus (prepared by Jonathan Busarow), the Purdue Fort Wayne University Singers (prepared by William Sauerland), and an expanded orchestra that featured abundant brass and percussion. ![]() The major work on the program was Carl Orff's 1937 secular cantata "Carmina Burana" or "Songs of Beuren," which is a setting of poems from the eleventh through the thirteenth centuries that are mostly in Latin and middle German, as well as some Old French. On Saturday, October 29, in Fort Wayne's Embassy Theatre, Andrew Constantine and the Fort Wayne Philharmonic presented music by Leonard Bernstein, Patrick O'Malley, and Carl Orff.
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