cantata

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

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

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

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

Barely into his 20s, he formed his first ensemble in his home town in 1954, and it was with this group, the Gächinger Kantorei, and the Bach-Collegium Stuttgart that he took on the complete 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 sacred cantatas and passions, and none more so than the “St. Matthew Passion,” include some of the most profound drama by this most profound of composers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 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