CARMINA BURANA IN ADJUNTAS AND THE COLLECTIVE SELF

When groups of people come together as a mass driven by a common position or value or sensation, or, maybe, a few values, a few positions, breaths, laughs or tears, the sense of a collective mood is felt, while each individual in the group never loses sense of the self. And that kind of commonality is best explained when viewing children in a classroom in the mountains of Puerto Rico listening to a chorus from Carmina Burana, and each of their unique facial gestures. .