Carl Orff's O Fortuna in popular culture a direct version of it. Carl Orff's O Fortuna in popular culture In 1935–36, the 13th-century poem "O Fortuna" was set to music by the German composer Carl Orff for his twenty-five-movement cantata "Carmina Burana". The composition appears in numerous films and television commercials and has become a staple in popular culture, setting the mood for dramatic or cataclysmic situations. For instance, it is used to portray the torment of Jim Morrison's drug addiction in the film "The Doors." In 1983, Doors' keyboardist Ray Manzarek released his third solo album, "Carmina Burana", which is an interpretation of the piece in
Lily Burana Lily Burana Lily Burana is an American writer whose publications include the memoir "I Love a Man in Uniform: A Memoir of Love, War, and Other Battles" (Weinstein Books, 2009), the novel "Try" (St. Martin's Press, 2006) and "Strip City: A Stripper's Farewell Journey Across America" (Miramax Books, 2001). "I Love a Man in Uniform" won the ELLE Magazine Reader's Prize in May 2009. "Strip City" was named one of the Best Books of the Year by "Entertainment Weekly", "Salon," "New York Newsday", and "The Rocky Mountain News". In 2008, "Entertainment Weekly" published a feature called "So You Want to