Tenor Sudeep Agarwala, graduate student in biology, rehearses with director William Cutter for the MIT Concert Choir's upcoming performance of 'Carmina Burana,' composed by Carl Orff in 1935 and based on 13th-century secular verses on the pleasures and perils of gluttony, lust and drink. Graduate students Elisabeth Hon, Stephan Jung and Agarwala will perform solo parts alongside seniors Daniel Cunningham and Joshua Li and sophomore Michael Johnson. The MIT Concert Choir performance of 'Carmina Burana' takes place on Saturday, Dec. 2 at 8 p.m. in Kresge Auditorium. The Concert Choir will also perform Benjamin Britten's 'Sacred and Profane' (Eight Medieval Lyrics), Op. 91. Admission is $5 at the door. Photo / Thaned Pruttivarasin
A version of this article appeared in MIT Tech Talk on November 22, 2006 (download PDF).
