| 单词 | cantata |
| 例句 | 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. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z 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.” Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Whether I play the blues or boogies, concertos or cantatas, I forget about me. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z But then, even in this boom time for early music in New York, where could you hope to find the four virtuosos on Baroque trumpet that Bach requires in that blessed cantata? Cobbling Together a Christmas Music Marathon 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z The allusion to Bach forms one of the starting points for English Touring Opera's new production: director James Conway prefaces the opera with Bach's cantata Christ Lag in Todesbanden, with its comparable emphasis on mortality. The Emperor of Atlantis – review 2012-10-09T16:49:30Z The opening concert is a performance of The Dream Of Gerontius, while later in the week comes a real collector's item, when Andrew Davis conducts the cantata Caractacus, which Elgar composed in the late-1890s. This week's new live music 2011-08-05T23:08:11Z In the afternoon event some 550 choristers, including the National Youth Choir of Great Britain, took part in the first performance of Bob Chilcott's cantata The Angry Planet. Proms 30 & 31: BBC Singers/Bach Choir/NYCGB/Hill; BBCSSO/NYOS/ Runnicles – review 2012-08-06T17:15:34Z The free Bach concerts, about 60 to 90 minutes long, typically consist of an organ prelude, two or three sacred cantatas and some incidentals. Review: Sacred and Secular, Bach Closes a Festival 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z I still love masses, passions, requiems, and cantatas and don’t really understand why Johann Sebastian Bach ever wrote his secular cantatas, which are so obviously inferior. Militant atheism has become a religion 2013-03-25T01:00:00Z In a simple cantata, four singers — soprano, alto, tenor, bass — would carry the whole load. Music Review | Trinity Choir and Trinity Baroque Orchestra: At Trinity, Andrew Parrott Leads a Full-Bodied ?Passion? 2010-03-16T21:46:00Z This weekend, Crouch End Festival Chorus revives one of Gerhard's late works, the cantata for narrator, chorus and orchestra he composed in 1964 based upon Albert Camus' novel The Plague. This week's new live music 2011-01-15T00:05:57Z Initiatives, statements and studies, call-outs, cancellations and cantatas — they’re all pieces of the work that has to be done. That sound you’re hearing is classical music’s long overdue reckoning with racism 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z On and on the cantata dragged, gathering sombre poignance in minor chords. Once upon a life: Rhoda Janzen 2010-12-26T00:04:01Z The program begins with Debussy’s 1906 transcription of the prelude to his cantata “La Damoiselle Élue,” which is based on a poem and painting by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. For This Pianist, Every Album Is an Essay 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z David Timm conducted the university’s choir and Baroque ensemble in three cantatas, over and above the 33. A Tribute to Bach on His Own Turf: 33 Cantatas in 48 Hours 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z Washington Bach Consort presented the first, second, fifth and sixth of these cantatas Saturday night at National Presbyterian Church to a capacity crowd. Review | Bach Consort goes full-fanfare in a crisp if orchestrally weak “Christmas Oratorio” 2017-12-10T05:00:00Z She added that in “Ms. Wolfe’s polished and stylistically assured cantata, the overall coherence of the musical material helped her expressions of outrage to burn cleanly and brightly.” Pulitzer Winner for Music Found Inspiration in Pennsylvania Coal Mines 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z With the addition of extra passages, including four orchestral songs, it is part cantata and part symphonic poem, but above all a portrait of Brazil and its forests. Villa-Lobos: Floresta do Amazonas 2010-08-19T20:59:00Z This isn’t a real oratorio but rather a de facto collection of six cantatas, the first three and the final one relating to the Nativity story. Bach times two: Collegium and Master Chorale double the elation 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z As with the human beings that Mr. Eagleman’s God despairs of clearly judging, Mr. Spratlan’s cantata is neither entirely good nor entirely bad. Music Review: ‘Hesperus Is Phosphorus,’ Lewis Spratlan’s New Work 2012-06-06T21:28:15Z Many would not have given it a second look, but Rousset immediately thought of an unresolved mystery of Couperin’s oeuvre, a lost Ariadne cantata. CD reviews: Two rediscoveries of Brahms and Couperin 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z Saturday’s program pays homage to Bach with a harpsichord concerto, a cantata and an orchestral suite. Classical Music Listings for Sept. 9-15 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z But he accepts that music validates divine belief: as he once told a Lutheran bishop after a performance of a Bach cantata, “Anyone who has heard this knows that the faith is true.” Henschel Quartet Offers Solace for Pope Benedict 2010-03-26T16:30:00Z Mr. Crumb arranged fragments of those poems into five songs and two interludes that are something between a Bach cantata and an exotic ritual. Music Review: Opera Moderne?s ?Modern Tryst? at the Galapagos Art Space - Review 2011-09-01T22:41:50Z Marsh’s December concert presented four of the six cantatas of Bach’s “Christmas Oratorio”; Patrick Rucker, in The Washington Post, called him “a superb choral conductor, energetic and precise.” Perspective | Early music, fresh start: A new leader for Washington Bach Consort 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z There was also his last finished work, a slight, upbeat cantata dated Nov. 15. Dudamel, Mozart and the hope and joy of 1791 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z “And After the Fire,” partly based in history, posits the rediscovery of a fictional Bach church cantata with a particularly bilious text. A Literary Couple Grapple With Bach and His God 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z In the late 1960s, his cantata “The Whale” brought him fame with the help of The Beatles, who released it on their Apple records label. John Tavener, Composer and Seeker, Dies at 69 2013-11-12T18:20:35Z He was buoyant, opening with one of Bach’s most overtly jubilant cantatas and ending with what the conductor described as the most joyous symphony ever written, Beethoven’s Seventh. Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra serves up a sandwich of sad and sweet 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z The fluidity between the secular and liturgical in Bach is also illustrated by the fact that several Brandenburg Concertos find repurposing in his church cantatas for Leipzig, where he moved after Köthen. There’s More Religion Than You Think in Bach’s ‘Brandenburgs’ 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z In Ms. Wolfe’s polished and stylistically assured cantata, the overall coherence of the musical material helped her expressions of outrage to burn cleanly and brightly. NY Phil Biennial Offers Themes of Mining and Building 2014-06-01T04:00:00Z The music for Prospero’s alluring aria is taken from a Vivaldi cantata, sung by Mr. Daniels with a transfixing blend of melting sound and forceful delivery. Music Review: ?The Enchanted Island? at the Metropolitan Opera - Review 2012-01-01T22:56:22Z This program will feature rarely heard motets and cantatas by some of the leading female composers of the 17th century to add a little festivity to your beer. 4 classical-music events to catch after Thanksgiving 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z In the past year, the theater put on a cantata and an opera with volunteers, but none of its traditional ballet performances. Rio ballerinas struggle amid Brazil's financial crisis 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z Hired by Leipzig to serve as the German city’s cantor for St. Thomas Church, Bach not only wrote weekly cantatas for several major houses of worship. Multimedia Tafelmusik concert immerses audience in Bach’s creative cycle 2017-03-05T05:00:00Z From there the only way to go, as in Handel’s cantata “Armida Abbandonata,” is to the sadness of her being forsaken. Tellings of Armida?s Story, Including Gluck?s at Juilliard 2012-02-03T15:51:38Z “Aci,” composed in Naples in 1708 when Handel was 23, is a kind of dramatic cantata, commissioned by an Italian duchess to help celebrate her niece’s wedding. Review: A Baroque Opera Muddies Lines Between Him and Her 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z When the players had a clear, distinctive musical character to embody — a blithe movement from the Telemann quartet or the slumber aria from Bach’s cantata — they tackled it with focused collaboration. Review: Bach Collegium Japan Returns With Chamber Music 2023-02-13T05:00:00Z But the music was incorporated into the composer's 1896 cantata King Olaf, and it was thought no copies of the original finished songs existed. Two new Elgar songs discovered 2013-05-28T15:28:31Z “We have to assume that he had to write it in order to keep his position as an important composer,” he added, referring to the cantata. On Deck,The Met?s Pinch-Hitter 2011-04-21T13:39:32Z So there will be extra interest in these forces’ performance of Taneyev’s final major work, the massive, gaudy cantata “At the Reading of a Psalm.” Finally, a Lot of Classical Music and Opera to Hear This Season 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z The Duke Ellington School of the Arts Chamber Singers joined the ensemble for a lively, hugely fun reading of the choral cantata “Nun ist das Heil,” BWV 50, which closed the evening. PostClassical brings warmth and sensuality to an all-Bach concert at Dumbarton Church This recording offers his 2012 vespers cantata, “Hesperus Is Phosphorus,” performed by the Philadelphia forces that commissioned it: the Crossing, the superb contemporary-music vocal ensemble, and Network for New Music. Classical Playlist: Lewis Spratlan, Beethoven and Brahms 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z Bach's cantatas and passions are a distant model, but the way in which Birtwistle manages the drama and intertwines the voices with the chamber orchestra that supports them is entirely his own. This week's new live music 2011-08-19T23:08:14Z It was there, at La Redoute, an elegant ballroom, that Beethoven met Haydn in 1792, and showed him a cantata he had written. From Bonn to Vienna, in Search of Beethoven, the Man 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z 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. Eight Ways of Looking at a Singular Composer 2022-10-02T04:00:00Z That is the case with Bach’s sacred cantatas, the focus of this year’s Bachfest Leipzig, which ran from June 8 through 17. What Does It Mean to Play the ‘Best’ of Bach? 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z 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. Best Theater of 2022 2022-12-05T05:00:00Z “Including 55 serious operas, 6 cantatas, 53 comic operas, 17 operettas, 6 sing-spiele, 4 ballets, 4 vaudevilles, 2 oratorios, one each of fares, pastorales, masques, ballads and buffas.” Amy Beach, a Pioneering American Composer, Turns 150 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z That was before Bach’s cantatas, Haydn’s and Handel’s and Monteverdi’s operas, and in general the music of the 17th, 16th, 15th and earlier centuries, became part of the living repertory.” Andrew Porter, New Yorker Classical Music Critic, Dies at 86 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z The ensemble presented all of Bach’s more than 200 cantatas, as well as works by other baroque composers, went on three international tours and released several recordings. J. Reilly Lewis, organist, choral director and Bach authority, dies at 71 2016-06-11T04:00:00Z The “Christmas Oratorio” cantata performances at St. Paul’s end on Friday afternoon with No. 6, for the Feast of the Epiphany. Music Review: Trinity Choir and Baroque Orchestra?s Bach at One - Review 2012-01-03T23:20:10Z In July 1943 Francis Poulenc set eight of the Resistance poet Paul Éluard’s texts to music for “Figure Humaine,” a cantata for double chorus a cappella that is fiendishly difficult to perform. Unlocking the Mystery of Honegger 2010-08-29T02:30:00Z Those today who view religion negatively sometimes go even further and view Bach’s church cantatas as essentially instrumental concertos, with the religious texts more or less extraneous. There’s More Religion Than You Think in Bach’s ‘Brandenburgs’ 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z In 2001, when she sang Bach cantatas at a Lincoln Center presentation, I reported that she had "sent the audience into a trance." Alex Ross on Lorraine Hunt Lieberson 2013-05-28T06:00:00Z Furthermore, its popularity not only obscured its authentic character but also caused Handel’s “wider musical achievement in the field of opera, church music, chamber cantatas and instrumental compositions” to be overshadowed. The Last Civic Remnant of Authentic Spirituality at Christmastime 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z Researchers from publisher Elgar Works went through Elgar's sketchbooks of material destined for the cantata, for their latest publication, as part of . Two new Elgar songs discovered 2013-05-28T15:28:31Z The oratorio consists of six separate cantatas, intended for performance over the 12 days of Christmas, a practice the Trinity Choir emulated a year ago at St. Paul’s Chapel. Music Review: Canticum Novum and Collegium Vocale Gent Sing Bach Oratorio 2012-12-17T05:23:04Z He first came to attention in 1968 for his cantata "The Whale", which was later recorded on the Beatles' Apple label. British composer John Tavener dies aged 69 2013-11-12T19:43:28Z Mr. Gilbertson, 30 as well, wrote a string quartet that veers from glassy to robust, and Mr. Hearne, 35, wrote “Sound From the Bench,” a cantata for chamber choir, electric guitars and drums. Kendrick Lamar Shakes Up the Pulitzer Game: Let’s Discuss 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z It has established several performance series, toured internationally and worked its way steadily through all 215 of Bach’s cantatas, a traversal it completed in 2006 — whereupon it went back and started over again. Perspective | Early music, fresh start: A new leader for Washington Bach Consort 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z In several running feet of papers are detailed letters and notes from our year working together on the cantata “Forest Without Leaves.” Leaving Alaska 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z Bach’s “Christmas Oratorio” consists of six cantatas written for various days of Christmastide and not intended to be performed together, as they often are today. Cobbling Together a Christmas Music Marathon 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z In his college years, Mr. Harnoncourt and fellow students played through arias from the Bach cantatas and much else, realizing in the process that “the performers in Bach’s time used different instruments.” An Austrian Maestro’s Career, Seen Through His Recordings 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z There are always plenty of performances of rediscovered works, and the big event this year is a revival of Arthur Sullivan's cantata The Golden Legend. Field Day, Haim, Metz: this week's new live music 2013-05-25T05:00:12Z The two concerts on Sunday feature cantatas by Daniel Felsenfeld and a song cycle for soprano and accordion by Albert Behar. Classical Music Listings for May 16-22 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z The following year, Berlioz won the prize with a much tamer cantata. Review: Berlioz, Rendered Newly Audacious at Carnegie Hall 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z Why are you digging up this horrible stuff in the church cantatas?” A Literary Couple Grapple With Bach and His God 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z And the most interesting question in the book — how the discovery of a lost Bach cantata might play out today — is, despite all the pages devoted to it, basically glossed over. The worst of Bach 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z That was again evident from the opening moments of the first cantata on Wednesday, when the excellent choristers raised the rafters of the tiny chapel to the words “Rejoice, exult, arise, glorify the days.” Music Review: Christmas Oratorio at St. Paul’s Chapel 2013-01-06T22:28:27Z Photograph: The Art Archive/Corbis The years 1650 to 1750 were a period of feverish invention and technical ingenuity in music that reached an apotheosis in Handel's sublime oratorios and Bach's cantatas and Passions. What pop music owes to the classical masters 2013-01-24T18:54:18Z Elsewhere — such as in “Der Neue Orpheus,” a cantata for soprano and violin soloists — Weill proved a master of balancing disparate voices, with a keen ear for precise orchestration. Kurt Weill’s Path From Europe to Broadway Was a Straight Line 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z Andriessen's cantata for soprano and orchestra, Dances, is an esoteric monologue about the emotional travails of an ancient Egyptian princess, sung here with succulent tone by Rebecca Lea. Ensemble 10/10/Rundell – review 2013-02-28T14:59:43Z That work provided the melodic germ and temperament for David T. Little’s “Am I Born,” an elaborate, multimovement cantata also inspired by a Francis Guy painting, “Winter Scene in Brooklyn.” Music Review: Brooklyn Philharmonic and Brooklyn Youth Chorus at Roulette 2012-03-26T22:28:24Z Mr. Harbison took an interest in Bach cantatas as a child and nurtured it over the decades, working with the Bach Society Orchestra at Harvard and the Cantata Singers and Emmanuel Music in Boston. Music Review: Bach Cantatas at Alice Tully Hall - Review 2011-12-08T23:12:37Z She took up singing full-time while studying in Boston in the early eighties, drawing notice first for her precisely expressive accounts of Bach cantatas at Emmanuel Church, under the direction of Craig Smith. Alex Ross on Lorraine Hunt Lieberson 2013-05-28T06:00:00Z And Mr. Fowler returns in “Socrates” to play Satie’s cantata “Socrate,” which sets three passages from Plato, climaxing in the death of Socrates. Dance Review: A Romp Through the Barn 2011-08-20T00:23:30Z Richard Alston’s “Rejoice in the Lamb,” set to Benjamin Britten’s cantata adaptation of a poem by Christopher Smart, was the most cohesive offering. Dabbling in Provocation at the Fall for Dance Festival 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z So begins Bach’s “Christmas Oratorio,” a set of six seasonal cantatas, in a spirit of overwhelming musical jubilation. Review | Bach Consort goes full-fanfare in a crisp if orchestrally weak “Christmas Oratorio” 2017-12-10T05:00:00Z Britten encouraged listeners to sing along during two hymns in the cantata. Music Review: St. Thomas Choir of Men and Boys Sing Britten 2010-05-20T21:17:00Z In 2003, I claimed that her recording of the cantatas, on the Nonesuch label, was "beautiful enough to stop a war, if anyone thought to try." Alex Ross on Lorraine Hunt Lieberson 2013-05-28T06:00:00Z Stravinsky’s score is much more than that: a barnyard fable told as a cantata, with the voices chanting or uttering in a style that Stravinsky developed further in his better-known work “Les Noces.” Dance Review: A Romp Through the Barn 2011-08-20T00:23:30Z Mr. Hearne, whose cantata “Sound From the Bench” was a finalist, praised the decision to award the Pulitzer to Mr. Lamar, calling him “one of the greatest living American composers, for sure.” Kendrick Lamar Wins Pulitzer in ‘Big Moment for Hip-Hop’ 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z In the past year, the theater put on a cantata and an opera with volunteers, but none of its traditional ballet performances. Rio ballerinas struggle amid Brazil's financial crisis 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z The title of the Easter cantata that our church sang every year was Paid in Full, a symbolic nod to salvific redemption. Once upon a life: Rhoda Janzen 2010-12-26T00:04:01Z Bach wrote a number of cantatas that have not survived. The worst of Bach 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z These lessons are most explicit in religious works like the cantatas of Bach. Exit Arias: What Opera Can Teach Us About Dying 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z Minkowski's horses will be performing inside Salzburg's 17th-century former "rock riding school", which was later transformed into a concert hall, to the music of Mozart's cantata "David Penitente" on the festival's opening day. Conductor Marc Minkowski: horses, Mozart made for each other 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z The slow sarabande movements are the emotional heart of each of suite, and Ma made them sing like the most penetrating arias in Bach’s cantatas and passions, sorrow so excruciating that it becomes oddly liberating. Yo-Yo Ma does the impossible at the Hollywood Bowl 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z In “Pierrot Lunaire,” Schoenberg pushed the voice to new extremes, in which Mr. Boulez reveled in his great cantatas. Sampling the Work of Pierre Boulez 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z Margaret Bonds’s Easter cantata “Simon Bore the Cross,” is set to texts by Langston Hughes. Review | ‘Porgy’ and ‘Simon’: Two works trying to fold black experience into Western canon 2018-02-25T05:00:00Z This is one of the most sublime and strangely mature works of art in the world: a truly compassionate thing, almost a Bach cantata in paints. Artist Rogier van der Weyden: my Easter TV hero | Jonathan Jones 2010-04-02T09:02:00Z She tried dissecting Carl Orff’s cantata “Carmina Burana,” a celebration of earthly passions that she describes as “spaghetti exploding out of the bowl.” Heather Christian’s Choral Work Is a Study of Time. Patience, Too. 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z The excellent Young People’s Chorus of New York City joined the St. Thomas singers and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s for the evening’s final work, a beautifully rendered interpretation of the cantata “St. Nicolas.” Music Review: St. Thomas Choir of Men and Boys Sing Britten 2010-05-20T21:17:00Z Franz Joseph Haydn: I wrote a hundred symphonies, and 50-some sonatas, Masses, oratorios, concertos and cantatas. Style Invitational Week 1378: It’s (emergency) Parody Time 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z Speaking from the stage, Mr. Levine explained that “with all the things on my plate at the moment,” he was not ready to perform the cantata. Review: Elliott Carter Premiere and Levine Withdrawal With Met Chamber Ensemble 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z When she sang Benjamin Britten's cantata Phaedra at the New York Philharmonic, she froze listeners in their seats with her high monotone chant of the words "I stand alone." Alex Ross on Lorraine Hunt Lieberson 2013-05-28T06:00:00Z That mission was accomplished over the weekend with the premiere of Suzanne Farrin’s “La Dolce Morte,” a dramatic cantata in the form of a song cycle for countertenor and small chamber ensemble. Review: Suzanne Farrin’s Imaginative ‘La Dolce Morte’ at the Met 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z According to the Swiss J. S. Bach Foundation, which is behind the project, the series will have covered all of his cantatas, masses, oratorios and motets by 2030. Review: Ekmeles Performs John Cage at the Avant Music Festival 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z Along with his Kate Bush project, Mr. Bleckmann is preparing to record a pair of Bach cantatas with a Spanish Baroque ensemble, and a songwriting collaboration with an Icelandic avant-garde jazz guitarist. Theo Bleckmann Performs Kate Bush?s Songs 2012-04-04T22:21:32Z In 1785 he received a request from the Society of Musical Artists in Vienna to write a cantata based on psalms of David to be performed in a benefit for widows and orphans. Music Review: Mostly Mozart Concludes With Almost All Mozart 2010-08-22T23:58:00Z Mr. Wachner’s bold approach paid dividends again on Thursday, when the players of other tricky instruments, like the Baroque hunting horn, struggled at the start of the fourth cantata. Music Review: Christmas Oratorio at St. Paul’s Chapel 2013-01-06T22:28:27Z What if a lost Bach cantata were found that had a text so anti-Semitic that it was not appropriate for performance? The worst of Bach 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z Music consumed Bach: even relaxing in Zimmermann's coffee house in Leipzig, he couldn't resist dashing off a quick cantata about the addictive properties of the black brew. Bach in business 2010-07-29T20:45:00Z He knew he wanted to expand on his Orpheus-theme cantata, “The Orphic Moment.” A Young Composer Takes On Opera’s Oldest Myth 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z There are church cantatas that are just as bad. A Literary Couple Grapple With Bach and His God 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z His earliest successes had such broad appeal that his cantata “Ballad for Americans” was performed at both the Communist and Republican presidential conventions in 1940. Capturing the Short, Glamorous Life of a Forgotten Broadway Lyricist 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z “What if the bottom bass note went up while the top note of the triad went down, like in the Bach fugues and cantatas?” he remembers wondering in “Time Is Tight.” Booker T. Jones, Soul’s Ultimate Sideman, Takes the Lead at Last 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z Bach's “Trauernacht” cantatas with soloists and instrumentalists of the European Academy of Music. Trip Tips: Mozart to Masekela, summer festivals for all tastes 2014-06-20T04:00:00Z This season the series is completing a five-year survey of Bach’s more than 200 surviving sacred cantatas, but Mr. Wachner also turned attention here to the secular cantatas, far fewer in number. Review: Sacred and Secular, Bach Closes a Festival 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z Conducted by the composer, and with some lush, ear-catching writing expertly played by the London Sinfonietta, it's more cantata than in any sense opera. Aida; Elegy for Young Lovers; O Sonho 2010-05-01T23:07:00Z The experimental cantata, not performed until 1939, also evokes Scriabin’s harmonic language. Music Review: American Symphony?s Stravinsky at Carnegie - Review 2012-01-22T23:07:34Z Not that the words of the two cantatas were sweetness and light. OAE/Butt – review 2013-03-26T18:19:20Z It's effectively a cantata telling the biblical story of Jacob wrestling with the Angel, with tenor and countertenor soloists and a chorus. Top of the Proms 2011 2011-07-07T20:30:02Z The Twelfth Night Festival ended on Friday, with a presentation of the last of the six cantatas of Bach’s “Christmas Oratorio” on its appointed day, the Feast of the Epiphany. Critic?s Notebook: Trinity Church, a Sanctuary for Music, Cuts Back 2012-01-10T23:20:05Z Bach’s “Christmas Oratorio” is an enormous work, six cantatas strung together in a sequence of delicacy and wonder. Classical Music in NYC This Week 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z Mr. Herreweghe can hardly be faulted for skipping two of the cantatas, especially since, by omitting the fourth, he was spared the expense of bringing along French horn players from Belgium. Music Review: Canticum Novum and Collegium Vocale Gent Sing Bach Oratorio 2012-12-17T05:23:04Z In the case of the cantata, hope underscores an ode to brotherhood that foreshadows Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. Dudamel, Mozart and the hope and joy of 1791 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z Mozart wrote two new arias for the cantata. Music Review: Mostly Mozart Concludes With Almost All Mozart 2010-08-22T23:58:00Z The baritone Roderick Williams joined them for cantatas by Bach and Telemann. Review: Bach Collegium Japan Returns With Chamber Music 2023-02-13T05:00:00Z Her teaching space became a musical salon, and she led a chorus of students in revelatory performances of Bach cantatas. She Was Music’s Greatest Teacher. And Much More. 2021-07-30T04:00:00Z Most of the “Enchanted Island” score is drawn from the operas, oratorios and cantatas of Handel, with a few of his hit tunes offset by more obscure excerpts. ?The Enchanted Island,? a Baroque Mash-Up at the Met 2011-12-22T15:38:19Z This performance, despite the distinguished setting, served in the end mainly to reaffirm the consistently high quality of the cantata performances over the weekend. What Does It Mean to Play the ‘Best’ of Bach? 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z As he was looking for another collection of great work, I recommended the Bach cantatas. Letters: Denis Forman always looked for new horizons 2013-02-26T15:05:04Z But in the show’s first incarnation it was often difficult to discern the central story in a plot so over-tangled with issues that it came to seem like a cantata of discontent. Review: With ‘Jagged Little Pill,’ They Finally Fixed the Jukebox 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z Mostly secular pieces on mythical subjects, they are rarely heard nowadays, though the best known of them is the last: the scenic cantata Caractacus, first performed at the Leeds festival in 1898. Caractacus ? review 2011-08-11T12:06:08Z He worked on a cantata glorifying the “German resurrection” in the late 1930s but abandoned the project, possibly because it became distasteful. On Deck,The Met?s Pinch-Hitter 2011-04-21T13:39:32Z The Brecht-Weill ballet cantata is characterized by moral defeatism, but Ms. Taylor-Corbett turns this into a shrugging laissez-faire: a moral null. Dance Review: When Brecht and Weill Danced, Revisited 2011-05-12T22:00:13Z His approximately 200 church cantatas are sermons on the meaning of being. Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra serves up a sandwich of sad and sweet 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z Each week he presented a cantata by himself or by another composer — a “sermon in sound,” as it was often called at the festival — relating to the Gospel text for the particular Sunday. What Does It Mean to Play the ‘Best’ of Bach? 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z Belfer’s characters proceed on the assumption that it is better for everyone if the cantata remains unperformed. The worst of Bach 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z With the exception of the impassioned cantata “Nenia: The Death of Orpheus,” this is an album of miniatures: It’s rare for the songs here to last longer than two minutes. Classical Playlist 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z Assistant principal oboist Jamie Roberts covered herself in glory on the lead oboe parts in the suite and cantatas, allowing Stovall to focus on the concerto. Helmuth Rilling returns to NSO with sweet gifts of Bach But the biggest problem in “Life,” which is set to the Vivaldi cantata Gloria, is that there were more false endings than actual beginnings. Review: Black Grace Dances Out a Different Kind of Buzz 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z He was a Lutheran, a prodigious producer of cantatas; the Mass is Catholic. A concert mass gets an intimate performance 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z It’s a solo cantata, one that heightens our perception of Wilde’s suffering and pushes us to reflect on his conviction. A Primer to One of America’s Most Political Composers 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z Its Triumphal March often crops up in selections of Elgar's orchestral lollipops, but the Three Choirs festival's performance of the cantata was complete, with Andrew Davis conducting the Philharmonia and the Festival Chorus. Caractacus ? review 2011-08-11T12:06:08Z But he could also exercise notable restraint, as in “I stand by thy manger bed here,” a chorale in the sixth cantata on Friday. Music Review: Christmas Oratorio at St. Paul’s Chapel 2013-01-06T22:28:27Z The first, on Friday, takes the Eternal City as its theme, with Bizet’s “Roma,” Respighi’s “Pines of Rome” and Berlioz’s cantata “La Mort de Cléopâtre,” which the French composer entered for the Prix de Rome. 6 Classical Music Concerts to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z She has been prominent locally with recent performances of the cantata “Anthracite Fields” by the Los Angeles Master Chorale and the theater piece “Steel Hammer” at UCLA. Bang on a Can All-Stars launch their 'Road Trip' in Hollywood, and it's a fun ride 2017-10-15T04:00:00Z In a manuscript collection of mostly anonymous French cantatas was an unknown cantata devoted to the story of Ariadne rescued by Dionysus on the island of Naxos. CD reviews: Two rediscoveries of Brahms and Couperin 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z Wouldn’t you have wanted someone to plant a hidden microphone in Bach’s church as he rehearsed the performers for the next Sunday’s cantata? Bob Dylan and the “Hot Hand” 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z There may be more mystery and resonance in the composer’s unfinished Requiem Mass in D minor, but the cantata is a snapshot of Mozart’s role in the Masonic movement. Seattle Phil concert focuses on late works by the greats 2013-01-10T22:01:56Z His bête noire was the widespread notion that Beethoven symphonies and Bach cantatas could be divorced from their historical contexts. Richard Taruskin, Vigorously Polemical Musicologist, Dies at 77 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z The performing forces expanded a bit on Friday for Handel’s early secular cantata “Apollo e Dafne” and on Saturday for three of Bach’s ripest creations. Review: A Sublime Survey of Baroque Music 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z The second concert began with participation, as Howard Moody rehearsed the audience in the chorale that ends the cantata Christ Lag in Todesbanden. 5 stars for 9-hour Bach Marathon 2013-04-02T10:24:08Z Bach’s music in the cantatas, as Richard Taruskin noted in The New York Times almost two decades ago, “was a medium of truth, not beauty.” What Does It Mean to Play the ‘Best’ of Bach? 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z The melancholy of Bach’s cantata hides a deeper contentment. Review: Bach Collegium Japan Returns With Chamber Music 2023-02-13T05:00:00Z Combs sounded particularly good in the New Year’s cantata, while Tomlin paled against the instruments in the course of the afternoon. Review | Bach Consort celebrates new year, new leader 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z There are festival and school songs, patriotic anthems, a cantata for an academic degree ceremony and, inevitably, two versions of “Finlandia.” Classical Playlist: Sibelius, Dvorak and Zorn 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z He was especially impressive in that first cantata, where he added power to power in the aria “Great lord, O mighty king,” supplying vivid ornamentation and giving full weight to the rhetorical grandeur. Music Review: Christmas Oratorio at St. Paul’s Chapel 2013-01-06T22:28:27Z Harrison Birtwistle's dramatic cantata Angel-Fighter, first performed at the Leipzig Bach festival last year, is his third recent work to be based on biblical subject matter. BBC Singers/London Sinfonietta/Atherton ? review 2011-08-22T14:57:59Z In the Magnificat and two of Bach’s sacred cantatas, the ensemble was never less than polished and skillful, with well-chosen tempos and precisely calibrated swells. Music Review: Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra at Alice Tully and in Newark 2012-03-18T20:18:26Z In 1943 he won the first Pulitzer Prize ever given in music for “A Free Song,” a secular cantata setting a text by Whitman. Music: William Schuman?s Legacy as Teacher and Composer 2010-03-31T21:13:00Z What other quartet of that era would have made its recorded debut not with standard repertoire but with a cantata by Darius Milhaud, written just a few years before? 5 Classical Albums to Hear Right Now 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z Two of Bach’s cantatas for Christmas Day turned this performance into the unofficial kickoff of the holiday concert season. Helmuth Rilling returns to NSO with sweet gifts of Bach Orff’s Burana is an interpretation of 24 poems, and is presented as a cantata — a vocal-driven composition, slightly different than an opera, usually broken up into several movements, and often performed by a choir. Top 10 Tunes You Think You Know (But Really Don?t) 2011-11-16T10:00:23Z The young mezzo-soprano from Pennsylvania attracted attention two years ago when she was a soloist in a Bach cantata that Gustavo Dudamel conducted with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Singing best part of L.A. Opera's slapsticky 'Barber of Seville' 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z Already down to sing two cantatas in this all-Bach event, she added a third, replacing the previously announced Third Brandenburg Concerto. Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra/Koopman – review 2012-06-11T16:55:02Z The “Capriccio on the Departure of a Beloved Brother,” positioned as a solo harpsichord interlude between the two secular cantatas, was less persuasive. Review | Washington Bach Consort gives a cheerful performance fit for spring 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z Norris said he knew there were sketches for the two songs incorporated into the composition notes for Elgar's 1896 cantata "King Olaf", but it was thought that there were no original complete songs in existence. Enthusiasts unearth two lost songs by British composer Elgar 2013-05-29T11:56:07Z Ms. Pancella shaded flat at times but performed gamely as a late substitute; if she had had any of these cantatas in her repertory, they were probably not in English. Music Review: Bach Cantatas at Alice Tully Hall - Review 2011-12-08T23:12:37Z Bach’s cantatas, exalted as some of them seem, were utilitarian creations. What Does It Mean to Play the ‘Best’ of Bach? 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z Mr. Balliett defined the next piece, his own “Clytie and the Sun,” as “a rap cantata for rapper, soprano, harp, saxophone, piano and electric guitar.” Music Review: Resonant Bodies Festival at ShapeShifter Lab in Brooklyn 2013-09-06T22:26:20Z Even the pedal point of a Bach cantata has a drone going through it. Songwriter With a Global Guitar 2011-05-09T22:00:27Z He later wrote an oratorio and four cantatas, a mass, two ballets and works for jazz combo with orchestra. Dave Brubeck, Jazz Musician, Dies at 91 2012-12-05T18:31:41Z Mr. Gardiner, one of the few living conductors who has performed and recorded all the sacred cantatas, many of them repeatedly, hatched the notion of a ring. What Does It Mean to Play the ‘Best’ of Bach? 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z Other Masonic works by Mozart include some Masonic funeral music and a choral cantata, The Mason's Joy. "Into the Light" 2013-06-05T06:35:14Z “A successful performance of a Bach cantata or passion demands individuality of expression from every person,” he said. Early-Music Ensembles: Praised as Pure, but Seeking More 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z Among the more intriguing repertory items are Sibelius' epic "Kullervo" symphony, Rachmaninov's "Spring" cantata, Shostakovich's Symphony No. 10 and Billy Childs' Violin Concerto, a memorial to Iraq war victims. Summertime, and there's music for everyone in Grant Park 2011-03-02T22:26:00Z Roughly half the programme was given over to secular cantatas by Vivaldi describing the amatory turmoils of shepherds and shepherdesses. Prina/Il Pomo d'Oro/Minasi – review 2012-11-07T16:53:00Z The exuberant Howard Moody rehearsed the audience in the final chorale of the Easter cantata Christ lag in Todesbaden so that we could play our part as Bach's congregations would have done. Nabucco; Bach Marathon; Tine Thing Helseth, Kathryn Stott – review 2013-04-06T23:06:25Z As Rousset admits in his booklet essay, this cantata is far from a masterpiece, but the performance makes a strong argument for hearing it. CD reviews: Two rediscoveries of Brahms and Couperin 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z Mr. Salters returned in the last work on the program, “Averno,” a striking and contemplative cantata based on 11 remarkable poems by Louise Glück. Music Review: New Territory, With Hues of Nature 2011-05-20T23:04:06Z Many classic works of art are, in effect, commercials, from Pindar’s epinician, or victory, odes to Bach’s church cantatas. Can a Musical Sponsored by a Toilet Manufacturer Be a Work of Art? 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z I find him heartening; he was this extraordinary genius of Western music and he had, like, 20 children and he wrote a cantata a week. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: ‘Sight’ Balances Grief, Freud and Parenthood 2018-10-14T04:00:00Z Each cantata was followed by the corresponding modern “response,” this time accompanied by players from ICE. Review: New Music Inspired by Christ’s Agony and Dating Apps 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z We can play solo sonatas and cantatas for reduced scoring. Unconventional chamber group I-90 Collective performs at Seattle's Trinity Parish 2010-08-26T20:10:00Z Not that there was any absence of power or clatter where appropriate, as in Prokofiev’s cantata “Alexander Nevsky,” which ended the Sunday afternoon program. Chicago Orchestra at Carnegie Hall and Beyond 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z Bassist Doug Balliett, who teaches a course on the Beatles at the Juilliard School and writes cantatas for Sunday church services, as well as wacky pop operas, is in a class of his own. Review: At the Ojai Music Festival, the sublime and the shocking 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z “The cantata ‘And We’ll Die as One,’ a cycle about noble hatred. How Ukraine’s Greatest Novelist Is Fighting for His Country 2022-05-24T04:00:00Z His sacred cantatas and passions, and none more so than the “St. Matthew Passion,” include some of the most profound drama by this most profound of composers. The Hamburg Ballet tackles Bach and Bernstein with rich imagery and movement 2022-03-19T04:00:00Z Ellington wrote nonstop for specific performers and performances, as Bach did with, say, his weekly church cantatas. Commentary: The Duke Dilemma: Symphonic Ellington is a mainstay — but still in need of revival 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z Originally composed as a cantata in three movements, it was first sung in honour of the duke's 75th birthday. Prince Philip's funeral: The order of service 2021-04-17T04:00:00Z Originally composed as a cantata in three movements, it was first sung in honour of His Royal Highness’s 75th Birthday. Order of Service for the funeral of Prince Philip 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z Neither the recording nor the cantata developed legs. Commentary: Why it's time to revive Leonard Bernstein's long-dismissed, race-conscious White House musical 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z For a couple of days, the cantata was the last music I listened to before going to bed and the first I turned to in the morning. Commentary: Bach wrote BWV 82 to transcend tragedy. It's a lullaby for our times too 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z Once asked how he kept up such a hectic pace, he quipped that “compared with the output of Bach, who composed a cantata a week, I am practically unemployed.” Ennio Morricone, Italian composer who wrote wildly inventive theme of ‘The Good, the Bad and the Ugly,’ dies at 91 2020-07-06T04:00:00Z A classically trained baritone, Mr. Liu donated to Emerson Music, a group known for performing Bach cantatas. Philanthropy Rises in Pandemic as Donors Heed the Call for Help 2020-06-26T04:00:00Z A handful of stilted recordings of this cantata have been released over the years, none offering much reason for its revival. Review: The L.A. Phil, as only it can, delivers a long weekend of 'Apollo' and 'Flower Power' 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z In 1985, he composed a cantata to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council. Community deaths 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z He endured the deaths of six of his 20 children, including that of a son six months before writing this cantata. Commentary: Bach wrote BWV 82 to transcend tragedy. It's a lullaby for our times too 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z In his father’s church, in San Diego, he played Pontius Pilate’s water boy in an Easter cantata. Adam Driver, the Original Man 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z Later, Roy tells me: “This goes clear back to Martin Luther himself and Johann Sebastian Bach. They made a big deal out of music. With Bach it was cantatas. With Luther it was hymns.” Perspective | For 50 years of Sundays, he’s powered the pipe organ at this Arlington church 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z “If I cannot have you in my heart,” he sings in the cantata’s exceedingly beautiful final aria, “I shall wear you on my brow.” Review: The L.A. Phil, as only it can, delivers a long weekend of 'Apollo' and 'Flower Power' 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z Signal Lab was premiering “URSA: an interstellar cantata,” the Big Dipper, let alone any stars at all, would likely not have been visible. Review: Musicians turn the Big Dipper into an 'interstellar cantata,' with help from NASA 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z At the cantata’s center is a lullaby of consoling sweetness, generosity of spirit and somnolent blessedness, its melody beyond compare. Commentary: Bach wrote BWV 82 to transcend tragedy. It's a lullaby for our times too 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z British musical collective Solomon's Knot perform four Bach cantatas from memory, without a conductor at a late-night Prom on 14 August. The BBC Proms are going to outer space 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z Born into a working class family in Barcelona, Caballe unveiled her musical talents early on, singing Bach cantatas at the age of 7. Spanish opera singer Montserrat Caballe dies at 85 2018-10-06T04:00:00Z Born into a working class family in Barcelona, Caballe unveiled her musical talents early, singing Bach cantatas at the age of 7. Spanish opera singer Montserrat Caballe dies at 85 2018-10-06T04:00:00Z The cantata, which lasts 79 minutes, is in 14 short movements that examine in unforeseen fashion the constellations Ursa Major and Ursa Minor, or to most of us, the Big and Little Dipper. Review: Musicians turn the Big Dipper into an 'interstellar cantata,' with help from NASA 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z His cantata provides a manual for how to die sublimely, mapping the road to paradise. Commentary: Bach wrote BWV 82 to transcend tragedy. It's a lullaby for our times too 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z For its May 19 season finale, the early music ensemble will celebrate the 500th anniversary of the Reformation at the Trinity Lutheran Church in Pasadena with a program of chorale concertos and cantatas. 15 ways to hear chamber music magic in L.A. 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z It lasted just 20 minutes but the seven-song "pop cantata" launched one of Lord Lloyd-Webber's most enduring songs - Any Dream Will Do. Andrew Lloyd Webber: My career in 7 songs 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z For a previous production of “Richard III,” Melville composed several songs that spanned “quasi-heavy metal music and Latin cantatas — it was like my prog-rock album.” 'Two Gentlemen of Verona' rocks and rolls in Independent Shakespeare staging 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z This was but a fleeting segment of “URSA,” but so were all the others, and that is part of the joy of the cantata. Review: Musicians turn the Big Dipper into an 'interstellar cantata,' with help from NASA 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z BWV 82, to use the conventional numbering system we use for Bach, didn’t become one of the best loved of Bach’s some 200 extant cantatas for no reason. Commentary: Bach wrote BWV 82 to transcend tragedy. It's a lullaby for our times too 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z Over time, Lutheranism came to exert great influence over German music, particularly on Johann Sebastian Bach, whose cantatas and passions follow Lutheran texts. Revolutionary music, from rousing to mindless 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z Palm Sunday worship service with the blessing of the palms and a performance of the Easter cantata “Mighty to Save.” Religion events from around the Washington area 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z Undeterred, she wrote about 500 pieces, including the music for her own wedding and a cholera cantata, after nursing her whole family through cholera, before she died aged 41 in 1847. Belated premiere for Fanny Mendelssohn - BBC News 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z This “interstellar cantata,” made of many amiable voices, ultimately reminds us that we all live under the big sky. Review: Musicians turn the Big Dipper into an 'interstellar cantata,' with help from NASA 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z Most of the cantatas employed choruses, a solo singer or two and an instrumental ensemble in which members might also have virtuoso solo parts, and that also meant frantic rehearsal schedules. Commentary: Bach wrote BWV 82 to transcend tragedy. It's a lullaby for our times too 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z Yet, Marissen concludes, this cantata is a poor vehicle for righteous anger against Jews. Bach’s Holy Dread 2016-12-25T05:00:00Z The program will include a performance of “Tapestry of Light: A Celtic Christmas Celebration,” a newly composed cantata by Joseph M. Martin. Religion events from around the Washington area 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z I love going to Bach Vespers at Holy Trinity by Lincoln Center and listening to their services of Bach cantatas. How Malcolm Merriweather, Musical Director of the Dessoff Choirs, Spends His Sundays 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z Washington Bach Consort The orchestral and choral program includes the Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 in F Major, two cantatas and the organ work Prelude and Fugue in A Minor. Going Out Guide for the District of Columbia, Sept. 22-28, 2016 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z The cantatas became for the composer an almanac of emotional responses to his time and place, the seasons of the year, the joys and sorrows of 18th century Leipzig life. Commentary: Bach wrote BWV 82 to transcend tragedy. It's a lullaby for our times too 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z Marissen is properly aghast: “The aesthetic magnificence of Bach’s musical settings surely makes these great cantatas more, not less, problematic. The notion that beauty trumps all really is too good to be true.” Bach’s Holy Dread 2016-12-25T05:00:00Z Mr. Wiesel went on to write novels, books of essays and reportage, two plays and even two cantatas. Elie Wiesel, Auschwitz Survivor and Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Dies at 87 2016-07-02T04:00:00Z Mr. Wiesel went on to write novels, books of essays and reportage, two plays and two cantatas. Auschwitz survivor Elie Wiesel, Holocaust memory keeper, dead at 87 2016-07-02T04:00:00Z He has served as the church organist at Holy Cross Lutheran Church for 44 years, has served as the director for the Multi-Community Chorus for 24 years, directing the Christmas cantata in this entire span. Local man’s service to Lidgerwood is more than a civic duty 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z Though mainly sacred, cantatas could be secular as well, intended for weddings and other celebrations, funerals or even, as Bach delightfully demonstrated, the coffeehouse. Commentary: Bach wrote BWV 82 to transcend tragedy. It's a lullaby for our times too 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z Recorded surveys of the two hundred or so sacred cantatas, including Gardiner’s epic undertaking in 1999 and 2000, have brought Bach’s spirituality to the forefront. Bach’s Holy Dread 2016-12-25T05:00:00Z And if you want big music - indoors - try Gurre-Lieder, Schoenberg's massive cantata for five vocal soloists, narrator, chorus and large orchestra. What made last year's Edinburgh festival successful? - BBC News 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z The four-minute cantata was found in the archives of the Czech Museum of Music in November 2015 and played on harpsichord for an audience on Tuesday. Mozart and Salieri 'lost' composition played in Prague - BBC News 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z He’s already planning next year’s cantata, developing music and planning the production. Local man’s service to Lidgerwood is more than a civic duty 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z By this point Bach had moved on from the Herculean task of nonstop cantata making, turning them out on an occasional basis. Commentary: Bach wrote BWV 82 to transcend tragedy. It's a lullaby for our times too 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z For the first few years, he pursued that project with ferocious energy, composing cantatas on a weekly basis. Bach’s Holy Dread 2016-12-25T05:00:00Z Nicholas White conducts a performance of solo song settings by various composers and includes his own cantata, “The Raven,” a work in eight movements for vocal quartet, with string quartet, horn, cor anglais and piano. Religion events from around the Washington area 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z When I watch Luck play, I hear a Bach cantata. NFL 2015 predictions: our writers call the winners, losers and also-rans 2015-09-13T04:00:00Z Orff's cantata comprising 24 poems, mostly in Latin, is one of the most popular works in classical music, particularly the opening bars of the first movement "O Fortuna". Nazi-era work Carmina Burana debuts at Israel's Masada Festival 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z His eloquent, restrained approach with soprano and bass versions is part of his luminous complete set of Bach cantatas. Commentary: Bach wrote BWV 82 to transcend tragedy. It's a lullaby for our times too 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z Maybe because it’s put together from an earlier cantata and therefore not very ‘original’. Bach & Beyond: Music for the Easter Weekend 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z Ludwig van Beethoven conducted a performance of his Seventh Symphony at the Congress, as well as a new cantata he composed especially for the occasion. 10 Things You Didn’t Know About the Congress of Vienna that Influence Us Today 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z Features the church choir’s performance of “Canticles in Candlelight,” a new cantata, Christmas carols with a congregation sing-along and Handel’s “Hallelujah Chorus,” with piano, organ, flute, violin, viola, cello, trumpet and percussion accompaniment. Religion events from around the Washington area 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z Apparently angered that their attack was being minimized, the hackers took to YouTube, posting an 11-minute video set to the music of Carl Orff’s pulsing cantata O Fortuna. Now at the Sands Casino: An Iranian Hacker in Every Server 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z They are the title of a Bach cantata performed in Weimar, the city of Goethe and Schiller, just 10 miles from Buchenwald. Ten objects that made modern Germany 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z I put on a Bach cantata because I was so terribly happy. Finding the Good in the Bad: A Profile of Rita Levi-Montalcini 2012-12-30T17:45:00.203Z Penalty for willful infringement Oratorios, cantatas, etc. may be performed Sec. Copyright: Its History and Its Law 2012-04-23T02:00:25.937Z I have now a favour to ask of you, dear Father, in reference to the cantatas of Sebastian Bach, which Zelter possessed. Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from Italy and Switzerland 2012-04-07T02:00:33.707Z His compositions, numbering about two hundred, include six operas, two oratorios, six or seven cantatas, much chamber music and a once-popular pianoforte concerto. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 2012-04-04T02:00:56.447Z I wanted to hear her say something more than: "I was at a cantata last evening and had a nice time", and so on. The Conquest The Story of a Negro Pioneer 2012-03-26T02:00:32.910Z Music While Masses, oratorios and sacred cantatas have an important place in classical music, the pop charts may not seem a welcoming place for theology. How much Christianity is hidden in British society? 2012-02-22T10:39:56Z His cantata Alger was heard at the Paris opera in 1865. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" 2012-02-17T03:00:33.923Z I beg you will send me for him, as a token of my gratitude, the six cantatas of Sebastian Bach, published by Marx at Simrock's, or some of his pieces for the organ. Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from Italy and Switzerland 2012-04-07T02:00:33.707Z Hiller’s compositions comprise almost every kind of church music, from the cantata to the simple chorale. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 2012-04-04T02:00:56.447Z It was through Dr. Heap that I was asked to write a cantata for the Staffordshire Musical Festival, and, shortly after, the committee asked me to provide an oratorio for the Worcester Festival. The Strand Magazine, Vol. 27, No. 161, May 1904 2012-02-11T03:03:45.230Z It was for the Brain Club that she wrote "The Socio-Maniac," a cantata caricaturing fashionable society. Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 2012-01-24T03:00:23.377Z M. Gounod declared that he would compose within the year not a Mass, but a cantata on the life and martyrdom of the Maid of Orleans, the words to be drawn from Holy Scripture. Donahoe's Magazine, Volume XV, No. 3 Volume XV (Jan 1886-Jul 1886) 2012-01-23T03:00:12.223Z I should however prefer the cantatas: he already has the "Magnificat" and the Motets, and others. Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from Italy and Switzerland 2012-04-07T02:00:33.707Z Installments were released in boxed sets that included full scores of the cantatas. Gustav Leonhardt, Harpsichordist, Dies at 83 2012-01-18T02:49:00Z This cantata then came under the notice of Dr. Swinnerton Heap, to whom I owe my introduction to the musical festivals as a writer of choral works. The Strand Magazine, Vol. 27, No. 161, May 1904 2012-02-11T03:03:45.230Z Motet, mo-tet′, n. a sacred cantata of several unconnected movements, as a solo, trio, chorus, fugue, &c.: a choral composition having a biblical or similar prose text.—n. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) 2012-01-11T03:00:23.770Z While he used one Christian text, Johann Sebastian Bach’s church cantatas, he “tried to not push religion too hard,” and emphasized vocabulary such as the names of countries and vegetables, he said. Chinese Atheists Lured to Find Jesus at U.S. Christian Schools 2011-12-20T22:04:38Z The short cantatas and little operettas run from $4 a hundred to 35 cents apiece, and in very few cases higher than 40 cents. Arguments before the Committee on Patents of the House of Representatives, on H. R. 11943, to Amend Title 60, Chapter 3, of the Revised Statutes of the United States Relating to Copyrights May 2, 1906. 2011-12-08T03:00:30.010Z He later recorded Bach’s secular cantatas as well, for the Alpha label. Gustav Leonhardt, Harpsichordist, Dies at 83 2012-01-18T02:49:00Z Mr. Hugh Blair, then the organist of Worcester Cathedral, saw some of the cantata, 'The Black Knight,' and said: 'If you will finish it I will produce it at Worcester.' The Strand Magazine, Vol. 27, No. 161, May 1904 2012-02-11T03:03:45.230Z At an early age he composed a number of sacred cantatas and other pieces for the church service. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" 2011-11-28T03:00:19.517Z The archbishop, like his predecessor, was a connoisseur, and selections from the operas of Handel and the cantatas of Sebastian Bach were performed at Bonn in a style worthy of the imperial court at Vienna. Beethoven: A Memoir (2nd Ed.) 2011-11-14T03:00:21.027Z This circular was sent out last January, and has injured Mr. Tams, not in the renting of these particular cantatas, masses, and so forth, but other works which he has, and publications of his own. Arguments before the Committee on Patents of the House of Representatives, on H. R. 11943, to Amend Title 60, Chapter 3, of the Revised Statutes of the United States Relating to Copyrights May 2, 1906. 2011-12-08T03:00:30.010Z Godard’s chance arrived in the year 1878, when with his dramatic cantata, Le Tasse, he shared with M. Th�odore Dubois the honour of winning the musical competition instituted by the city of Paris. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" 2011-10-31T02:00:28.703Z We copy the closing cantatas, "To Sleep," and "A Weed"—a prayer and a prophecy—in which the profoundest sorrow is displayed with touching simplicity and unaffected earnestness. The International Monthly, Vol. II, No. I December 1, 1850 2011-10-29T02:00:14.677Z There Graun remained for five years, and wrote a number of cantatas, mostly to words written by Frederick himself in French, and translated into Italian by Boltarelli. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" 2011-11-28T03:00:19.517Z Ruth, a biblical cantata was produced with success at the Conservatoire in 1846. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 1 "Franciscans" to "French Language" 2011-10-22T02:00:29.487Z Aria, ā′ri-a, n. an air or rhythmical song introduced in a cantata, oratorio, or opera, and intended for one voice supported by instruments. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) 2011-10-11T02:01:08.990Z As soon as dinner was over they started for Dresden, where an opera, three ballets between the acts, the smiles of Faustina and a cantata composed by Hasse specially for the day, awaited the King. Count Br?hl 2011-10-06T02:00:41.430Z During his sojourn in London he composed the cantata "Gallia," inspired by the troubles that had befallen his native land. Masters of French Music 2011-09-14T02:00:49.960Z For festival occasions, cantatas in a purely secular, effeminate style were composed. Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 2011-09-14T02:00:43.813Z Spohr’s sacred cantata, “God, Thou art Great,” Mendelssohn’s “Hymn of Praise,” and Mozart’s “Requiem” were performed on the morning of the 16th, and in the evening a miscellaneous concert was given. Norfolk Annals A Chronological Record of Remarkable Events in the Nineteeth Century, Vol. 2 2011-05-25T02:00:19.650Z Meanwhile I had been thinking of a grand divertissement, or rather a cantata depicting peasant nuptials. An Autobiography 2011-05-21T02:00:10.850Z The cantata was duly performed, and the composer was called some half-dozen times before the curtain. The Mapleson Memoirs, vol I 1848-1888 2011-05-20T02:00:28.363Z Blangini also wrote a cantata upon the same subject, which he entitled "Werther's Swan Song, half an hour before his death." Masters of French Music 2011-09-14T02:00:49.960Z We had travelled with the Marquis Am�d�e de Pastoret, who had written the words of the cantata which had won my prize for me. Autobiographical Reminiscences with Family Letters and Notes on Music 2011-04-12T02:00:25.667Z He composed a cantata for the Birmingham Festival of 1829, and, as he could not take it to England himself, entrusted it to his pupil Costa. Shakespeare and Music 2011-04-01T02:00:29.867Z He is merely directed and not fettered, in the case of song, cantata, oratorio or opera, by the sense of the words which he has to set. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" 2011-03-14T03:01:00.580Z I need scarcely say that the cantata was given but for one night. The Mapleson Memoirs, vol I 1848-1888 2011-05-20T02:00:28.363Z His visits to London have been frequent, and his cantata, "The Lyre and the Harp," was composed expressly for the Birmingham Festival of 1879. Masters of French Music 2011-09-14T02:00:49.960Z This ceremony was an annual function, one of its features being the performance of the cantata which had won the music prize. Autobiographical Reminiscences with Family Letters and Notes on Music 2011-04-12T02:00:25.667Z Hector Berlioz made his third unsuccessful attempt on the Prix de Rome with a cantata on this subject. Shakespeare and Music 2011-04-01T02:00:29.867Z I often saw Schumann in Leipsic, and I heard him conduct his cantata, "The Pilgrimage of the Rose." Memories of a Musical Life 2011-03-10T03:00:45.530Z She hurried to the door, her arms raised for a sudsy cantata, her feet tapping, her face ringing with smiles. The New Old Age: Forgetting the Gift 2011-03-09T14:41:20Z After that, though you became a missionary in Shantung, or a remittance-man in Tahiti, you would never forget the bouquet of the Rabeaut wines, the cantatas of the canaries, nor the witchery of Soronia's eyes.... She Buildeth Her House 2011-01-04T03:01:05.167Z I was going to tell you, before you interrupted, so rudely, that there’s somebody who’s written a poem—a lot of poetry, to music—a cantata I think they call it. Famous Flyers And Their Famous Flights 2010-12-25T03:00:15.953Z T. Herbert Dimmock directs Cantata 67, one of Bach's great Easter cantatas. Concerts 2010-04-02T04:00:00Z They include pieces, vocal and instrumental, for the organ, piano, stringed and keyed instruments; church cantatas, oratorios, masses, passion music, &c. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 3 Atrebates to Bedlis Her sister, Maria Theresa, composed several cantatas and three operas. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 1 A to Amide He composed a number of cantatas, and after the death of Handel he superintended the performance of Handel’s oratorios at Covent Garden. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" Musical training is also valuable, not merely for its esthetic results; and children's choruses, with cantatas and oratorios, may be most interesting. Woman's Club Work and Programs First Aid to Club Women In 1883 his setting of Gray’s Elegy in the form of a cantata was produced at the Leeds Festival. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" A diarrhœa of dramatic works, romances, critical epistles, poems, cantatas, and apologies by both the Vandals poured from the press and deluged Venice. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi Volume the Second The occasion was the performance, under Massenet's management, of a cantata, "Le Gladiateur," by Paul Vidal, at the Institut de France. Famous Singers of To-day and Yesterday His sacred cantata, The Seventh Day, was written for the Philharmonic Society and performed in 1833. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" With the rise of the Da Capo aria the cantata became a group of two or three arias joined by recitative. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 "Camorra" to "Cape Colony" A poet and a musician, she wrote cantatas and composed music for them. Women of the Teutonic Nations Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 8 (of 10) His cantata, The Rose Maiden, was given in London in 1870, his second symphony by the Liverpool Philharmonic Society in 1872, and his first festival work, The Corsair, in 1876 at Birmingham. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" The following alphabetical list has been prepared to present the reader with the titles of the more important cantatas by well-known composers and the dates of their composition. The Standard Cantatas Their Stories, Their Music, and Their Composers The numerous works—operas, burlettas, cantatas, incidental music to Shakespeare’s plays, &c.—which he composed while in this position, are in great part forgotten. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" In the same way the church cantata, solo or choral, is indistinguishable from a small oratorio or portion of an oratorio. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 "Camorra" to "Cape Colony" There are examples of this use of the instrument in the sacred cantatas of J. S. Bach, where the cornet is added to the upper voice parts to strengthen them. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 4 "Coquelin" to "Costume" On the second choir practice night I spoke of, it is certainly good to take up glee practice, or a simple cantata. The Boy's Voice A Book of Practical Information on The Training of Boys' Voices For Church Choirs, &c. The National Centennial celebration at Philadelphia was inaugurated May 10, 1876, with a special musical programme, in which the cantata with the above formidable title occupied a prominent place. The Standard Cantatas Their Stories, Their Music, and Their Composers Although by Bach’s time the concerto as a polyphonic instrumental form was thoroughly established, the term frequently appears in the autograph title-pages of his church cantatas, even when the cantata contains no instrumental prelude. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 7 "Columbus" to "Condottiere" This is equally evident whether we examine the unparalleled church cantatas of Bach, of which nearly 200 are extant, or the Chandos Anthems of Handel. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 "Camorra" to "Cape Colony" Aria, fugue, and strange sonata, Opera, and gay cantata, Through my brain, In linkéd train, Hark! Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 377, March 1847 The boys sometimes give concerts, performing such cantatas as Smart's King Rene's Daughter, and Mendelssohn's "Two-part Songs." The Boy's Voice A Book of Practical Information on The Training of Boys' Voices For Church Choirs, &c. In addition to the subjoined compositions selected for description, the following may be mentioned as possessing the cantata characteristics: op. The Standard Cantatas Their Stories, Their Music, and Their Composers The productions of this period of his life are very numerous, consisting of operas, both comic and serious, cantatas, and various sacred 368 compositions. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" The Italian solo cantata naturally tended, when on a large scale, to become indistinguishable from a scene in an opera. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 "Camorra" to "Cape Colony" He did much for musical art, perfecting recitative and advancing the development of the sacred cantata. Weird Tales. Vol. I The churches are, however, getting more and more eclectic, and are singing music from oratorios, cantatas, and masses that was composed for women altos, and is far too high in compass for men. The Boy's Voice A Book of Practical Information on The Training of Boys' Voices For Church Choirs, &c. Mr. Corder is credited with being an ardent disciple of Wagner, and his cantata certainly shows the influences of that school. The Standard Cantatas Their Stories, Their Music, and Their Composers The chorus of his cantata Jesus nun sei gepreiset is one of the most perfectly designed and quite the longest of movements ever based upon a chorale-tune treated phrase by phrase. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" Many of Bach’s greatest cantatas begin with an elaborate chorus followed by a couple of arias and recitatives, and end with a plain chorale. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 "Camorra" to "Cape Colony" His principal works are summarized by Fetis as thirty-two operas, twenty-nine church compositions, four cantatas and several instrumental pieces, besides the treatise on counterpoint and fugue. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1 "Châtelet" to "Chicago" So quickly was the service music got through at the weekly practice that there was nearly an hour to spare for singing glees and getting up cantatas. The Boy's Voice A Book of Practical Information on The Training of Boys' Voices For Church Choirs, &c. As an illustration of the original cantata form, it is one of the most striking and perfect. The Standard Cantatas Their Stories, Their Music, and Their Composers How innate and healthy was his genius may be inferred from the fact that for these musical services alone three hundred eighty cantatas seem to have been composed. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 13 But no one will maintain this who realizes the place which the church cantata occupied in the Lutheran church service. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 "Camorra" to "Cape Colony" These were followed by a cantata beautifully rendered by the G�teborg choir, words and music by women. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume VI Schumann's secular cantata, "Paradise and the Peri," given in New York City, by the Musical Institute, Henry C. Timm conducting. Annals of Music in America A Chronological Record of Significant Musical Events The composition has now assumed a form and become a grand cantata, with full orchestra, and may turn out well. The Standard Cantatas Their Stories, Their Music, and Their Composers These cantatas frequently opened with orchestral introduction followed by a chorus, usually very impressive, and imbued with the meaning of the text. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 13 In modern times the term cantata is applied almost exclusively to choral, as distinguished from solo vocal music. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 "Camorra" to "Cape Colony" The musicians of the town gave a breakfast at Godesberg in his honor, and here Beethoven summoned up courage to show the veteran musician a cantata which he had recently composed. Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History Elgar's cantata "The Banner of St. George" given at a Musurgia Concert, at Carnegie Hall, New York City, with the assistance of one hundred members of the Brooklyn Oratorio Society. Annals of Music in America A Chronological Record of Significant Musical Events The cantata begins with an overture in two movements, an allegro con fuoco and an allegro vivace, which describes in vivid tone-colors the passing of the season from winter to spring. The Standard Cantatas Their Stories, Their Music, and Their Composers His oratorios and cantatas were numbered by the hundred, many of which were produced only on a single occasion. Zigzag Journeys in Northern Lands; The Rhine to the Arctic; A Summer Trip of the Zigzag Club Through Holland, Germany, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden There has, perhaps, been only one kind of cantata since Bach which can be recognized as an art form and not as a mere title for works otherwise impossible to classify. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 "Camorra" to "Cape Colony" The cantata was sung as recently as December 18, 1921, at a concert in New York by the Society of the Friends of Music, directed by Arthur Bodanzky. All About Coffee Sullivan's cantata "On Shore and Sea" given under Theodore Thomas, in Chicago. Annals of Music in America A Chronological Record of Significant Musical Events The cantata is very short; but rarely have poem and music been more happily wedded than in this delightful tribute to fancy. The Standard Cantatas Their Stories, Their Music, and Their Composers The composer of what operas, symphonies, overtures, choruses, masses, cantatas, sonatas, fantasias, arias! Zigzag Journeys in Northern Lands; The Rhine to the Arctic; A Summer Trip of the Zigzag Club Through Holland, Germany, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden For these occasions she had carefully instructed fifty young girls to perform the beautiful cantata of "Laila, the Fairy Queen," a juvenile operetta. Music and Some Highly Musical People The cantata is really a sort of one-act operetta—a jocose production representing the efforts of a stern parent to check his daughter's propensities in coffee drinking, the new fashioned habit. All About Coffee Production of Dudley Buck's prize symphonic cantata, "The Golden Legend," at the Cincinnati Festival. Annals of Music in America A Chronological Record of Significant Musical Events The opening theme of the cantata, though not a repetition, bears a strong analogy to the introduction of the symphony movement. The Standard Cantatas Their Stories, Their Music, and Their Composers His cantata The Ancient Mariner was brought out at Birmingham in 1867, and another, Paradise and the Peri, in 1870, both with great success. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" The occasion was the presentation of the cantata of 'Laila' by fifty young ladies, under the direction of Miss Nellie E. Brown. Music and Some Highly Musical People Four absurd church cantatas are printed for conscience' sake in Jahrgang xliii. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Coleridge Taylor's cantata "Hiawatha's Departure" given by the Cecilia Society in Boston. Annals of Music in America A Chronological Record of Significant Musical Events In March, 1737, it was revived, with two additional choruses made by Hamilton for the work; and upon the same occasion an Italian cantata in praise of Saint Cecilia was sung. The Standard Cantatas Their Stories, Their Music, and Their Composers Bathilde, in spite of herself, played the first bar; then the second; then the whole cantata. The Conspirators The Chevalier d'Harmental The Rev. Thomas H. Jackson, pastor of Allen Temple, himself an excellent singer, a few weeks ago organized a select choir for the purpose of rendering the cantata just mentioned. Music and Some Highly Musical People Indeed, a cantata was recently selected, on the ground of its popularity, for a choral competition in a small English country town the year before it was performed as a novelty in Berlin! Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Bridge's cantata "The Forging of the Anchor" given at the Baptist Temple, Brooklyn, N. Y., under the direction of E. M. Bowman. Annals of Music in America A Chronological Record of Significant Musical Events It is this scene of desertion which Haydn chose for his cantata. The Standard Cantatas Their Stories, Their Music, and Their Composers All went off capitally, as you know, till the end of the cantata, and the proof is, that having only heard it once, you are able to remember it from one end to the other. The Conspirators The Chevalier d'Harmental In July, 1875, this society gave a public performance, in costume, of the cantata of "Daniel." Music and Some Highly Musical People Only four movements in the whole collection are not traceable to other extant works; all the rest comes from church cantatas. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" The performance is on Monday and I chance to know the cantata. Ladies-In-Waiting Do you not think that this might develop into a new style of cantata? The Standard Cantatas Their Stories, Their Music, and Their Composers She had already counted forty-one long days, and Bathilde would not admit that there could be an instant's delay; thus the next day she watched her neighbor's window constantly while studying the cantata. The Conspirators The Chevalier d'Harmental Louisville, Columbus, Toledo, Cleveland, and other cities more or less remote, would give themselves a treat, could they prevail on the Circle to render the cantata in their midst. Music and Some Highly Musical People Not more than six or seven cantatas are known to be lost, by the evidence of fragments, text-books, &c. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Besides more than threescore of operas, Donizetti composed seven masses, twelve string quartets, and a host of songs, cantatas and vespers, as well as pianoforte music. A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) The subject of the cantata is a very simple one. The Standard Cantatas Their Stories, Their Music, and Their Composers On that day, but that day only, Rossini will make up his mind to open his piano and compose a cantata in honor of fish in general, and turbot in particular. The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 This society promises to give the cantata "Esther." Music and Some Highly Musical People I.—Church Music A. With Orchestra 190 church cantatas: besides several which are only known from fragmentary sets of parts. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Besides this he composed two operettas, three song plays, three other stage pieces, four masses and several cantatas. A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) Weak as the text may be, the strong healthy music of the cantata makes ample compensation. The Standard Cantatas Their Stories, Their Music, and Their Composers "Why did not you keep your word?" said she.—"I showed you Christof�r Fe�doritch's cantata on condition that you would not mention it to him." A Nobleman's Nest He composed fifty-three works for the church, a hundred and eighteen for orchestra, twenty-six operas and cantatas, a hundred and fifty-four songs, forty-nine concertos, sixty-two piano-forte pieces, and seventeen pieces for the organ. Music and Some Highly Musical People We gave the cantata in the Baptist church on Christmas eve, “to a crowded house,” as the Riverbend “Messenger” truly chronicled. A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays I would like to," answered Carrie wistfully, "but this is my hour to practice for the cantata. Tabitha at Ivy Hall The anthems and services of his predecessor were laid aside, and that year Handel’s busy pen supplied two new settings of the Te Deum and the twelve Chandos Anthems, which are really cantatas in form. The Standard Cantatas Their Stories, Their Music, and Their Composers It was long since he had composed anything; but, evidently, Liza, his best pupil, understood how to arouse him: he had written for her the cantata to which P�nshin had alluded. A Nobleman's Nest In this year he wrote a violin sonata and two clavier sonatas, a little cantata, and an operetta. The Masters and their Music A series of illustrative programs with biographical, esthetical, and critical annotations The effect was similar to someone dropping a handful of broken glass into an electric meat grinder right in the middle of a Bach cantata. The Penal Cluster Another source of excitement was the Sunday School cantata to be given Christmas eve, in which Jane and Gertie were both to have the parts of fairies and Sherm a small role. Chicken Little Jane The last two cantatas were issued in Europe, the one in Germany and the other in England, and thus came to this country bearing a foreign imprint,—a novelty for an American composer. The Standard Cantatas Their Stories, Their Music, and Their Composers Lemm had crimsoned and had cast a sidelong glance at Liza; it pained him greatly when P�nshin spoke of his cantata in his presence. A Nobleman's Nest These cantatas were short oratorios consisting of choruses, solos, recitatives, instrumental movements, and were frequently of considerable elaboration. The Masters and their Music A series of illustrative programs with biographical, esthetical, and critical annotations So also does his cantata, "The Wild Chase." Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions The distribution of presents was not to come off until after the cantata. Chicken Little Jane A duet ensues between the two lovers on the castle terrace, which is very Italian in its flavor, and one of the most effective numbers in the cantata. The Standard Cantatas Their Stories, Their Music, and Their Composers Well, you run along and get me as many copies of the cantata as you can. The Lilac Lady It was a simple cantata, but a great success. A Little Girl of Long Ago A cantata for orchestra, "Lelewala," a legend of Niagara, is published for piano accompaniment. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions I’d a lot rather have kid gloves than be in your old cantata.” Chicken Little Jane Such is the horrible story which forms the theme of Dvořák’s cantata. The Standard Cantatas Their Stories, Their Music, and Their Composers You must set at the cantata while we are away, and have it finished for us to hear when we come back. Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden A look of contempt appeared upon his face: for one reason, perhaps, because he belonged to the Ibathi sect, who looked askance at music, disdaining even the cantatas about the Birth of the Prophet. Sacrifice Another bit of Washington Irving is found in Buck's cantata, "The Voyage of Columbus," the libretto for which he has taken from Irving's "Life of Columbus." Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions Besides these he wrote a large number of orchestral pieces, songs, and cantatas, and a rich and varied collection of pianoforte solos, transcriptions, and arrangements. The Standard Oratorios Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers The cantata is divided into four parts,—Prologue, the Renunciation and Temptation, the Return, and Epilogue and Finale. The Standard Cantatas Their Stories, Their Music, and Their Composers In directing a choir one may examine a dozen cantatas, or twenty-five anthems, before one is found that is really distinctive. Essentials in Conducting It will contain ten cantatas not before published. The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 In the cantata form Buck also holds a foremost place. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions The symphony clearly reflects the spirit of the cantata, which follows. The Standard Oratorios Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers The cantata is almost equally divided between male and female choruses, and these are the charm of the work. The Standard Cantatas Their Stories, Their Music, and Their Composers If the latter, shall it be of the operatic type, involving action, scenery, and costumes, or shall it be of the cantata or oratorio type? Essentials in Conducting Another work for family use was his cantata, or opera, "Son and Stranger," composed for the silver wedding of his parents. Woman's Work in Music Large vocal societies are 20giving an increasing number of native part songs and cantatas; prizes are being awarded in various places, and composers find some financial encouragement for appearing in concerts of their own work. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions In 1876 his oratorio "The Resurrection" was performed at the Birmingham Festival, and in 1877 the oratorio "Joseph" at Leeds, besides the cantata "The Lady of the Lake" at Glasgow. The Standard Oratorios Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers “The Crusaders” is one of the most powerful as well as beautiful of modern cantatas. The Standard Cantatas Their Stories, Their Music, and Their Composers The boy composed a cantata, which was given in the parlors of his parents' home, with an orchestra secured for the occasion. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 14 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Musicians She also wrote a sacred cantata, and many135 lesser vocal works, including excellent solo and ensemble songs. Woman's Work in Music Besides this, there are several secular 187 cantatas, particularly "King Trojan," which contains a singable tune for Trojan with many delicate nuances in the accompaniment, and a harp-accompanied page's song that is simply ambrosial. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions It is not an oratorio in the strict sense of the term, as it partakes of the form and qualities, not only of the oratorio, but also of the opera and cantata. The Standard Oratorios Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers It is at this point that the text of the cantata begins. The Standard Cantatas Their Stories, Their Music, and Their Composers And the young man drilled his chorus, wrote cantatas, and arranged chants and hymns. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 14 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Musicians She has also composed incidental music to "An Idyl of New Year's Eve," a 'cello sonata, variations for piano and strings, several dramatic cantatas, a number of songs, and many piano and violin pieces. Woman's Work in Music Other unpublished 433 works are a cantata, two arias with orchestral accompaniment, and a rhapsody for the piano. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions In 1858 his beautiful cantata, "The May Queen," was produced at the Leeds Festival, and in 1862 the "Paradise and the Peri" overture, written for the Philharmonic Society. The Standard Oratorios Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers “The Farewell of Hiawatha,” for barytone solo, male voices, and orchestra, modestly styled by its composer a ballad, is a cantata in its lighter form. The Standard Cantatas Their Stories, Their Music, and Their Composers In addition to this he wrote a large number of cantatas, more or less dramatic in character. A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present Mrs. Julian Marshall, born at Rome, has produced several orchestral works, as well as several cantatas, an operetta, a nocturne for clarinet and orchestra, and a number of songs. Woman's Work in Music There is an unfinished oratorio, "Samuel," an incomplete opera, "Hinotito," and a cantata of which only the tenor solo, "Khamsin," is done. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions It was only after repeated trials that he took the first prize, with his cantata, "Sardanapale," which entitled him to go to Italy for three years. The Standard Oratorios Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers The text of the cantata is composed of a prologue, epilogue, and twelve scenes taken from Longfellow’s Episode in “Christus” by the same name. The Standard Cantatas Their Stories, Their Music, and Their Composers His great work "Symphoniæ Sacræ," consists of cantatas for voices, with instrumental accompaniments, in which the instrumental part shows serious effort after dramatic coloration. A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present Of her various cantatas, the "Birth of Song," "Elysium," and "Henry of Navarre" have met with the most success. Woman's Work in Music The cantata "Vexilla Regis" is notable for its martial opening chorus, the bass solo, "Where deep for us the spear was dyed," and its scholarly and effective ending. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions The beautiful "Overture di Ballo," so frequently played in this country by the Thomas orchestra, was written for Birmingham in 1870, and the next year appeared his brilliant cantata "On Shore and Sea." The Standard Oratorios Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers “The May Queen,” a pastoral cantata, the libretto by Henry F. Chorley, was first performed at the Leeds Festival of 1858. The Standard Cantatas Their Stories, Their Music, and Their Composers For these resources he composed a succession of cantatas, every feast day in the ecclesiastical year being represented by from one to five separate works. A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present This accounts for the prevalence of cantatas in the English musical repertoire. Woman's Work in Music If the cantata is finished on this scale, its production will be a national event. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions "Noël," Saint-Saëns' Christmas oratorio, in dimensions hardly exceeds the limits of a cantata, but musically is constructed in oratorio style. The Standard Oratorios Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers There are few more beautiful cantatas than “The May Queen,” though the composer was hampered by a dull and not very inspiring libretto. The Standard Cantatas Their Stories, Their Music, and Their Composers Upon the first visit to London he took the journey down the Rhine, and at Bonn, in going or coming, the young Beethoven showed him a new cantata. A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present Emily M. Lawrence has produced "Bonny Kilmeny" and "The Ten Virgins," both for female voices, while Caroline Holland has written the cantata, "Miss Kilmansegg," and the ballad, "After the Skirmish," for chorus and orchestra. Woman's Work in Music Marston has written a sacred dramatic cantata, "David," and a large amount of church music that is very widely used. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions It is clear from Spohr's remarks that he was satisfied with the choruses and fugues, but not with the solo parts of Jesus and Mary, which were in the florid cantata style of that day. The Standard Oratorios Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers Mr. Buck’s latest cantata, “The Light of Asia,” well-nigh reaches the dimensions of an opera or oratorio. The Standard Cantatas Their Stories, Their Music, and Their Composers He early commenced to write cantatas and motettes for the seminary, of which he was a member, all of which show traces of the Italian influences. A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present Laura Wilson Barker, wife of Tom Taylor, has entered the classical arena with a violin sonata, and has done more ambitious work in the music to "As You Like It" and the cantata "Œnone." Woman's Work in Music The cantata, "Prayer and Praise," is similarly conventional, and suffers from the sin of repetition, but contains much that is strong. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions It might with more propriety be called "a sacred cantata." The Standard Oratorios Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers These preliminaries will enable the reader the better to understand the introduction which Mr. Chorley has written to the text of the cantata by Benedict, composed for the Norwich Festival of 1866. The Standard Cantatas Their Stories, Their Music, and Their Composers Besides these he composed several cantatas for church use, and several instrumental pieces. A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present Her other works include a piano trio, a number of sonatas and variations for piano, several songs and other vocal works, besides a few cantatas. Woman's Work in Music In Yonkers, New York, is Frederick R. Burton, who has written a dramatic cantata on Longfellow's "Hiawatha," which has been frequently performed. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions In 1867 his oratorio, or, as he modestly terms it, "sacred cantata," "The Woman of Samaria," was produced with great success at the Birmingham Festival. The Standard Oratorios Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers The cantata forms a valuable addition to our musical literature, and was first sung by the Cincinnati Harmonic Society, of which Mr. Singer was leader at the time. The Standard Cantatas Their Stories, Their Music, and Their Composers Here, among other works, he composed fifty Italian cantatas, usually consisting of two airs with recitative. A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present The cantata "Hadumoth" is another valuable work, showing great dramatic strength and an excellent handling of large choral effects. Woman's Work in Music Krehbiel, and is worked up delightfully in the cantata, an incessant thudding of a drum in an incommensurate rhythm giving it a decidedly barbaric tone. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions In the evening the cantata was repeated by the same choir in the Thomaskirche; and after the sermon the Hymn of the Virgin was sung, set in its Latin form, and in an elaborate style. The Standard Oratorios Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers The best authorities, however, now believe that the Jubel overture is an entirely independent work, having no connection with the cantata. The Standard Cantatas Their Stories, Their Music, and Their Composers Within the next seventeen years he produced twenty-four operas, besides a large number of cantatas and other works. A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present Agathe Plitt, a child prodigy in her early years, is still an excellent pianist, and has entered the lists in composition with a number of successful cantatas, psalms, motets, and other sacred works. Woman's Work in Music He next went to Breslau, where, under the instruction of Max Bruch, he wrote his cantata, "The Wild Chase," and gave public performance to other orchestral work. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions "The Woman of Samaria," a short, one-part oratorio, styled by its composer a "sacred cantata," was first produced at the Birmingham Festival, Aug. The Standard Oratorios Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers The cantata is written for the four solo voices, chorus of sopranos, altos, two tenors, and basses and orchestra. The Standard Cantatas Their Stories, Their Music, and Their Composers In the church there were masses by Beethoven and Cherubini, motettes by Palestrina, and cantatas by Bach. A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present Just as England seems the home of cantatas, and Germany of orchestral work, so France is especially devoted to opera, and her women have held their own well in this field. Woman's Work in Music The cantata is called "The Inheritance Divine," and it is much the best thing Shelley has done. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions It is also claimed that he was the first to introduce the cantata as a form of church music, and the accompaniment of violins in motet performances. The Standard Oratorios Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers Liszt’s cantata “Prometheus,” composed in 1850, is based upon the poem of the same name, written by Johann Gottfried von Herder, the court preacher of Weimar. The Standard Cantatas Their Stories, Their Music, and Their Composers While busily engaged as a popular opera composer, Zingarelli found time to compose much church music, his most important works being masses and cantatas. A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present Besides a number of sonatas, she wrote a "Te Deum" to honour the king's recovery from illness, and a number of cantatas. Woman's Work in Music All of these, except the cantata, have been published. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions In "The Tower of Babel" and "Paradise Lost," Rubinstein has given us works which are certainly larger in design than the cantata, and are entitled to be called oratorios. The Standard Oratorios Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers The cantata “On Shore and Sea” was written for the London International Exhibition of 1871. The Standard Cantatas Their Stories, Their Music, and Their Composers A work of this kind is a cantata, and not merely a song. A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present Her "Jubilate" cantata was written for the dedication of the women's building at the Chicago Exposition, and scored a great success there. Woman's Work in Music In addition to a goodly number of Easter carols, Christmas anthems, Te Deums, and such smaller forms of religious music, Smith has written a sacred cantata, "King David." Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions Many other "Lauds," however, were rather more in the manner of short songs than in that of the subsequently developed cantata. Some Forerunners of Italian Opera The cantata opens with a joyous sailors’ chorus and the lament of the mothers and wives as the seamen weigh anchor and set sail. The Standard Cantatas Their Stories, Their Music, and Their Composers Two oratorios, several cantatas, about sixty original songs for single voice and piano, and very many other writings of a literary and musical kind. A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present She has also written an orchestral cantata, a string quartette, and several works for violin and piano. Woman's Work in Music Of his cantatas, "Hesperus" is a work of the greatest promise and large performance. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions Beethoven, of course, was amongst the invited guests on the occasion, and he seized the opportunity of submitting to the master a cantata which he had lately composed. Story-Lives of Great Musicians The rest of the cantata is purely lyrical in style. The Standard Cantatas Their Stories, Their Music, and Their Composers The excellencies of Schumann as a song writer are only in part reproduced in his larger works in the form of cantatas, and in the opera of "Genoveva." A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present Her compositions include several organ pieces and a cantata for organ and strings, also anthems and various church music, as well as piano works and songs. Woman's Work in Music For male voices Brewer has written a cantata called "The Birth of Love." Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions The trios recall Meyerbeer; the cantata "Ruth," with which this his first period of composition closes, has a sweetness of the sort afterward identified with the name of Massenet. Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers Short as the cantata is, it is one of the most felicitous of all Mendelssohn’s settings of the ritual. The Standard Cantatas Their Stories, Their Music, and Their Composers Rossini himself appeared upon the stage and sang the solos in a cantata which he had composed in honor of the King, George IV. A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present Besides operas, she produced several cantatas and other choral works, and214 a number of concertos, sonatas, and pieces for the piano. Woman's Work in Music He has also set various songs of Heine's to music, and a short cantata for Easter, "The Resurrection." Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions He has written symphonies, concertos for piano and violin, operas, cantatas, symphonic poems, suites, ballades, fantasies, caprices. Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers O Stänerl, how madly they have gone on about my cantata! The Standard Cantatas Their Stories, Their Music, and Their Composers After composing two cantatas, which had a good success, his grand opera of "Mefistofele" was produced at Milan in 1868, and later in other leading cities. A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present Her cantatas show unusual breadth of style, and their largeness of spirit wins them great favour. Woman's Work in Music "Jehovah Nissi" is an excellent sacred march chorus that won a prize, and there is a cantata, "The Last Chieftain." Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions The cantata was given to the unbounded delight of Mr. Badger, and the audience cheered us all to the utmost. Sixty Years of California Song It is constructed upon a larger scale than the cantata of 1785, and is very pleasing and popular, but lacks the spirit and earnestness of the former. The Standard Cantatas Their Stories, Their Music, and Their Composers When secular in subject the cantata differs from the opera in not usually having definite characters, and in being always rendered without scenery or action. Music Notation and Terminology Another violin composer is Miss Lago, who has published songs and piano pieces as well as violin works, and has won a prize at Copenhagen with a piano cantata. Woman's Work in Music Bartlett's cantata is without efforts at Indian color, but is a solid work with much dignity, barbaric severity, and fire. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions Some time in 1874 he produced the cantata of Esther, with Madam Anna Bishop, queen, W.C. Sixty Years of California Song In 1876 his oratorio “The Resurrection” was performed at the Birmingham Festival, and in 1877 the oratorio “Joseph” at Leeds, besides the cantata “The Lady of the Lake” at Glasgow. The Standard Cantatas Their Stories, Their Music, and Their Composers Recitative is a style of vocal solo common to operas, oratorios, and cantatas, especially those written some time ago. Music Notation and Terminology Her orchestral cantata, "Siegfried," is another effective composition. Woman's Work in Music "Perhaps you are getting something—some sacred cantata—ready for one of the provincial festivals?" she said. The Way of Ambition The Rival Queens and The Marsh King are also two successful cantatas, the Quest of Truth being his latest work of that nature. Sixty Years of California Song After a short instrumental introduction the cantata opens with a double chorus in antiphonal style, in which both the bright and the dark sides of winter are celebrated. The Standard Cantatas Their Stories, Their Music, and Their Composers A cantata is a vocal composition for chorus and soloists, the text being either sacred or secular. Music Notation and Terminology Among her other large works are three cantatas, with orchestral accompaniment that can be reduced to dimensions suitable for piano. Woman's Work in Music The oratorios and cantata of the theatre and beer-garden were the Sabbath accompaniments of the sermon. History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology A list of the masses, oratorios, cantatas, etc., is also given. Sixty Years of California Song “The Story of Sayid,” a dramatic cantata in two parts, the libretto by Joseph Bennett, was first produced at the Leeds Triennial Festival, Oct. The Standard Cantatas Their Stories, Their Music, and Their Composers Examples of the sacred cantata are: Stainer's "The Crucifixion," Clough-Leighter's "The Righteous Branch," and Gaul's "The Holy City." Music Notation and Terminology They are "The Rose of Avontown," for female voices, "The Minstrel and the King," for male chorus and soloists, and "Sylvania," a wedding cantata recently published. Woman's Work in Music The lark's song was a cantata with the sun and the wind and the larch-odours, in short, the whole morning for the words. Alec Forbes of Howglen His anthems and cantatas were widely known, he conducted the local choral society and trained the operatic society for the annual performance. A Popular Schoolgirl The latter join in a graceful chorus, which is one of the most beautiful numbers in the cantata:— “Sweet the balmy days of spring, And blushing roses that they bring; But sweeter far is love.” The Standard Cantatas Their Stories, Their Music, and Their Composers His compositions are mostly for instrumental performance, but he wrote cantatas, motets, male choruses, and two oratorios, one on the “Destruction of Jerusalem.” The Story of the Hymns and Tunes The impression made by this work was so favourable that she received two commissions from the Turin authorities, at later times, one for a requiem and the other for a cantata. Woman's Work in Music The reply seems obvious: they are the call of the males inviting their mates; they constitute a lovers' cantata. Social Life in the Insect World |
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