Carl Orff brings the Middle Ages into the modern era with Carmina Burana, one of the best-loved choral works of the 20th century, and an exuberant celebration of the power of music’s simplest yet most ...

If you had asked Kate Orff about landscape architecture 25 years ago, when she was an undergraduate at the University of Virginia studying political and social thought, she would have said 'what's ...

Carl Orff (1895-1982) must be counted one of the most successful of twentieth- century composers. Carmina Burana is performed every day of the year and Schulwerk (Schoolwork), his method for teaching ...

Landscape architect Kate Orff has been selected as the next director of Columbia University’s urban design program, within the school’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation. An ...

The designer of Town Branch Commons in Lexington was named as one of 24 MacArthur Fellows, which is a program known by many as its “genius grants.” Kate Orff is one of the recipients of the award and ...

Oysters filter water, their shells form protective reefs and habitats, and regenerate into more oyster shells. Kate Orff uses oysters to revive depleted ecosystems — like those around New York City.

On a windy afternoon in April, the landscape architect Kate Orff stood on the open walkway of a container crane, some eighty feet above the Red Hook Terminal, in Brooklyn, and the Buttermilk Channel, ...

Carmina Burana ranks up there with Beethoven's Fifth as a perennial favorite among concert-goers. But Carl Orff's famous piece has inspired countless others to produce their own versions, from the ...

If you think of landscape architecture, you might conjure gardens and plantings. But in a rapidly changing climate fueled by intense heat, flooding, fires, smoke and hurricanes, architect and designer ...