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cantata

[kuhn-tah-tuh] / kənˈtɑ tə /


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Without a break, Dudamel began Estévez’s complex cantata, which he conducted from memory, with a searing fury that did not let up for 35 minutes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 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

The confluence of Day’s songs, Herrmann’s score and Benjamin’s cantata demolished the cliché of cinema music needing to stay in the background.

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

In 1943, she and the school’s music teacher, Altona Johns, put students through their paces in preparation for the year’s Christmas cantata, “The Light Still Shines.”

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly

Tailored for specific Sundays on the church calendar, the cantatas were between three and eight movements and usually lasted between 15 minutes and half an hour.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 24, 2026

Most of them call for soloists and a four-part choir, but he wrote solo cantatas as well as duos.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 24, 2026

The baritone Roderick Williams joined them for cantatas by Bach and Telemann.

From New York Times ● Feb. 13, 2023

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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