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cantata

[kuhn-tah-tuh] / kənˈtɑ tə /


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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 confluence of Day’s songs, Herrmann’s score and Benjamin’s cantata demolished the cliché of cinema music needing to stay in the background.

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

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 the cantata the tune represented a tragic Muslim Princess, Erminia, during the Crusades.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

Bach’s cantatas were limited by the forces available to him in a given week.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 24, 2026

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