cantor
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They were also performed for the first time in 320 years at the St Thomas Church in Leipzig, where Bach is buried and served as a cantor for 27 years.
From Barron's ● Nov. 17, 2025
Kane stars in the film opposite Jason Schwartzman, who plays Ben, a depressed cantor who befriends Carla, his childhood music teacher, as he prepares her for her bat mitzvah.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 6, 2025
In Grades IV and V, they perform tests at a walk, trot, cantor and do lateral work.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2024
The synagogue is named after German-born composer Kurt Weill, who fled Nazi Germany in 1933, and his father Albert Weill, who was a cantor in Dessau.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 22, 2023
A bracing example of how the landscape was changing can be seen in the unfolding career of the classically trained son of an orthodox Jewish cantor, Kurt Weill.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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