cantata
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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 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
The 12-hour performance includes three movements: an hourlong live chamber music performance; a 10-hour immersive experience with prerecorded compositions, intermittent live music and projections; and an hourlong cantata.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 3, 2023
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
She returned to singing in 2001, with Mr. Sellars’s staging of two Bach cantatas as a consecrated meditation on death.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 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
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
Whether I play the blues or boogies, concertos or cantatas, I forget about me.
From "Blended" by Sharon M. Draper
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