Anyone know the name of this song?(Vanity)

None ^ | 12/12/06 | Señor Zorro

[Señor Zorro]

One of the promos that I always used to hear for Sean Hannity's show (which I haven't heard in a while, so forgive me if this is a little out of date), had Scott Brown's voice booming "From coast to coast, from border to border, from sea to shining sea, Sean Hannity is on the air" over a classical music piece. Does anyone know the name of that piece?

[Señor Zorro]

I've been trying hard to remember it (and I have heard it several other places), but just can't.

[Pontiac]

I believe it is "Flight of the Valcalries".

Spelling may be wrong.

[b4its2late]

The Way It Is - Bruce Hornsby. Check out the clip here, track 5.

[b4its2late]

Actually, the You Tube Full version here might be the one you are thinking about. Let me know.

I think it's the beginning of the song is the part you are talking about...

[Delta 21]

Well thats some range! I like 'em both.

Which one is it?

[samm1148]

I think the classical cut is from Wagner's "The Ring"; Twilight of the Gods. It has also been used in several movies including Excalibur during the scene when a renewed King Arthur leads his knights against Mordred.

[Pontiac]

The classical piece is (if I am correct) is "Flight Of The Valkyries" Bruce Horsby follows.

I looked up the spelling.

[Enterprise]

I think it is from the opera CARMINA BURANA.

[Cogadh na Sith]

It's Carmina Burana by Carl Orff.

It is not Die Walküre.

I am a devoted Wagner fan.

[Pontiac]

I was wrong.

[Pontiac]

I bow to your Suppior knowledge.

Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi; From Carmina Burana by Carl Orff

[Knitting A Conundrum]

It was O Fortuna, from the Carminia Burana

And check out this flash version of it:

http://gprime.net/flash.php/ofortuna


Here's the lyrics:

O Fortuna,
velut Luna
statu variabilis,
semper crescis
aut decrescis;
vita detestabilis
nunc obdurat
et tunc curat
ludo mentis aciem;
egestatem,
potestatem,
dissolvit ut glaciem.

Sors immanis
et inanis,
rota tu volubilis,
status malus,
vana salus
semper dissolubilis;
obumbrata
et velata
mihi quoque niteris;
nunc per ludum
dorsum nudum
fero tui sceleris.

Sors salutis
et virtutis
mihi nunc contraria;
est affectus
et defectus
semper in angaria.
hac in hora
sine mora
cordae pulsum tangite!
quod per sortem
sternit fortem,
mecum omnes plangite!

O Fortune, like the moon of ever changing state, you are always waxing or waning; hateful life now is brutal, now pampers our feelings with its game; poverty, power, it melts them like ice.

Fate, savage and empty, you are a turning wheel, your position is uncertain, your favour is idle and always likely to disappear; covered in shadows and veiled you bear upon me too; now my back is naked through the sport of your wickedness.

The chance of prosperity and of virtue is not now mine; whether willing or not, a man is always liable for Fortune's service. At this hour without delay touch the strings! Because through luck she lays low the brave, all join with me in lamentation!

[JRios1968]

Here it is, on MIDI format

[Señor Zorro]

It was O Fortuna, from the Carminia Burana

That was it, thanks. I love the lyrics that you posted (ever since British Lit I, I've been a sucker for good poetry, which is precisely what those lyrics are, IMHO), to be honest one of the biggest barriers to opera for me is the fact that, for much of it, I simply don't understand the words. Darn it, you've got me playing Carl Orff and looking up translations of the Carmina Burana manuscript!

[Knitting A Conundrum]

And it is cool to remember that the texts of the Carmina Burana were written by medieval college students messing around when they should have been studying...

There is a line in O Fortuna which that translation smoothed out, but in colloquial English could probably be translated something like, "Dang, I lost my shirt again!"

Sounds better in the Latin, though. And Orff's music is wonderful.