cantata
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Hitchcock gave Herrmann the choice of writing a new cantata, but Herrmann realized that nothing could outdo “Storm Clouds.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
The cantata is based on a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow that tells the tale of an Ojibwe warrior in what is now Michigan.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
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
Orff was never a member of the Nazi party himself, but it’s unclear how cozy he was with the people who first embraced his cantata.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 2025
He waited, and to keep himself amused, he hummed snatches of his favorite cantata and imagined how he would narrate his adventures.
From "Abel's Island" by William Steig
Bach’s cantatas were limited by the forces available to him in a given week.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 24, 2026
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
The baritone Roderick Williams joined them for cantatas by Bach and Telemann.
From New York Times ● Feb. 13, 2023
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
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
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