The Lasting Appeal of Orff's Carmina Burana

We're exploring the possibility of performing this work in a year so I did a little web search and found this on NPR. Originally created on November 11, 2006, it speaks to the long life of Orff's masterpiece.

From the NPR website:

The subject matter covered in Carmina stays pretty basic: love, lust, the pleasures of drinking and the heightened moods evoked by springtime. These primitive and persistently relevant themes are nicely camouflaged by the Latin and old German texts, so the listener can actually feign ignorance while listening to virtually X-rated lyrics. (Veni Veni Venias! Come, come come now!)

Here's a wikipedia site.

And here's a site dedicated to a discussion of the work.