cantata

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

Benjamin’s “Storm Clouds” cantata would play in Technicolor, not grainy black and white, in a more complex montage.

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

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

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

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

From New York Times ● Feb. 13, 2023

Her teaching space became a musical salon, and she led a chorus of students in revelatory performances of Bach cantatas.

From New York Times ● Jul. 30, 2021

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