Classical Music in Latin & German.

[Gaius Octavius]

Some Latinists might be interested in hearing this:

 

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6470188

[Andrew Dalby]

Some Latinists might be interested in hearing this:

 

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6470188

 

Thanks, GO, an interesting article. It's one of my favourite pieces of music.

 

Some of the lyrics are a bit sexy, but I wouldn't say "lewd" as this author does. In spite of what she implies, "venio" in Latin means "come" in the everyday sense, not in the sexual sense!

[Gaius Octavius]

Some of the lyrics are a bit sexy, but I wouldn't say "lewd" as this author does. In spite of what she implies, "venio" in Latin means "come" in the everyday sense, not in the sexual sense!

 

I think that you are correct (not that I speak a word). If the listeners think that the latter is what it means, let them enjoy themselves. Sex in Latin! Puts bottoms in the seats. And that is the point of the exercise. But the music and voices are great.

[Lucius Apuleius]

Some Latinists might be interested in hearing this:

 

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6470188

 

Thanks, GO, an interesting article. It's one of my favourite pieces of music.

 

Some of the lyrics are a bit sexy, but I wouldn't say "lewd" as this author does. In spite of what she implies, "venio" in Latin means "come" in the everyday sense, not in the sexual sense!

 

True. True.

 

But there are plenty of other lines explicit and not so explicit.

 

And who doesn't love a good double entendre...?

[M. Porcius Cato]

Some of the lyrics are a bit sexy, but I wouldn't say "lewd" as this author does. In spite of what she implies, "venio" in Latin means "come" in the everyday sense, not in the sexual sense!

 

I'll never hear "Adeste fidelis" quite the same way again.

[Ginevra]

hihi "adeste fideles laeti et triumphantes...venite, venite, adoremus" ?

I had never seen it in this way but now... well, scary!