BPO'S SUMMER HOME

“Carmina Burana,” Carl Orff's music set to medieval poetry, has filled a lot of colorful roles. At hockey games at HSBC Arena, it thunders from the organ, inspiring the Sabres toward victory. In medieval epics like “Excalibur,” it echoes as knights head into battle. Oliver Stone used “Carmina Burana” in “The Doors.” The Trans-Siberian Orchestra performs it, too.

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