BPO Volunteer Appreciation Concert and Reception
Sunday, May 31, 2026
Concert begins at 2:30
Reception to follow in the Mary Seaton Room
The BPO is so grateful to each of our volunteers for their hard work throughout the concert season. As a token of our appreciation, we invite you to join us for Carmina Burana on Sunday, May 31 at 2:30pm, with a reception following the concert.
Carmina Burana
Sun May 31, 2:30pm
JoAnn Falletta, conductor
Sara LeMesh, soprano
Kameron Lopreore, tenor
Joshua Conyers, baritone
Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus
HINDEMITH Symphonic Dances
ORFF Carmina Burana
As the first of a trilogy of cantatas, Orff’s irreverent Carmina Burana draws from a 13th century compilation of medieval vagabond songs and poems detailing fate’s fickleness, pagan delights, and corruption. The primitivistic piece enraptures audiences with its hypnotic sensuality, preoccupation with a chant-like and ritualistic style, and powerful rhythms. Fantastic solo voices joined by the Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus sing of the full range of human love, from pining to ecstatic and more. Hindemith’s reworked Symphonic Dances complete the program, which emerged from discarded ballet collaborations. Challenging counterpoint as well as soft, dignified passages constitute this Neo-Classical piece written in a tumultuous era of history.