cantata

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

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.

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.

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.

But the biggest problem in “Life,” which is set to the Vivaldi cantata Gloria, is that there were more false endings than actual beginnings.