cantata
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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
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
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
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
A debate continues about how many voices to use when performing the cantatas.
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
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 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
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