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cantata

[kuhn-tah-tuh] / kənˈtɑ tə /


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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

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

You might have wondered, though, what else she could do with her fabulous instrument; the role is not a cantata but an emotional slalom that had ended in wipeouts for many before her.

From New York Times • Dec. 5, 2022

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




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