cantata

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She tried dissecting Carl Orff’s cantata “Carmina Burana,” a celebration of earthly passions that she describes as “spaghetti exploding out of the bowl.”

From New York Times

His sacred cantatas and passions, and none more so than the “St. Matthew Passion,” include some of the most profound drama by this most profound of composers.

From Los Angeles Times

Ellington wrote nonstop for specific performers and performances, as Bach did with, say, his weekly church cantatas.

From Los Angeles Times

What other quartet of that era would have made its recorded debut not with standard repertoire but with a cantata by Darius Milhaud, written just a few years before?

From New York Times

So there will be extra interest in these forces’ performance of Taneyev’s final major work, the massive, gaudy cantata “At the Reading of a Psalm.”

From New York Times