…with this rollicking indictment of corruption in high places, circa 1200. Does any of this sound familiar? We are shocked, shocked.
‘Bulla fulminante’ by Philippe le Chancellier
from Carmina Burana, arr. and dir. Joel Cohen
The Boston Camerata, Joel Frederiksen, soloist
Translation:
Truth is suppressed, distraught, and sold …. If you seek preferments, in vain do you advance your record; do not bring up your good conduct, lest you upset a magistrate. In vain do you rely on your erudition, but rather you wail around for months and months, and still you can expect your preferments to be carried off by others, unless you compete with a price of equal weight.