cantata
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He led a performance here that was colorful and exciting in the cantata, lean and incisive in his underscore.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
Nowhere is that presence more strongly felt than in the climactic cantata sequence, a thrilling interaction between music and movement.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
In 2004, a Bach cantata that had been lost for decades was rediscovered in the papers of Japanese pianist Chieko Hara.
From Barron's ● Nov. 17, 2025
This Sunday, the Los Angeles Master Chorale will fill the sails of Walt Disney Concert Hall with that stormy, earwormy cantata by Carl Orff: “Carmina Burana.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 2025
In the cantata the tune represented a tragic Muslim Princess, Erminia, during the Crusades.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
She returned to singing in 2001, with Mr. Sellars’s staging of two Bach cantatas as a consecrated meditation on death.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
A debate continues about how many voices to use when performing the cantatas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 24, 2026
In the 1940s Foss had already done two cantatas for voice and orchestra, “Song of Anguish” and “Song of Songs,” that were also on biblical texts.
From New York Times ● Oct. 2, 2022
His bête noire was the widespread notion that Beethoven symphonies and Bach cantatas could be divorced from their historical contexts.
From New York Times ● Jul. 1, 2022
Whether I play the blues or boogies, concertos or cantatas, I forget about me.
From "Blended" by Sharon M. Draper
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