cantata

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 the original, from 1934, Hitchcock united a cantata by one of his favorite composers, Arthur Benjamin, with the climax of a kidnap-assassination plot in a dramatic blending of action and music.

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 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

And familiar pieces that we know in arrangements as “Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring,” “My Heart Ever Faithful” and “Sheep May Safely Graze” began as movements in cantatas.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 24, 2026

Bach’s cantatas were limited by the forces available to him in a given week.

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

Nothing could be further from the omnipotent, benevolent creative force of Handel’s oratorios or Bach’s cantatas and Passions - yet Handel was still alive, just, and Bach had only died five years earlier.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall