• The Cantata Singers and Ensemble is a choir and orchestral ensemble located in Boston, Massachusetts. Founded in 1964 to perform and preserve the cantatas...
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  • John Harbison (category MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences faculty)
    and Epilogue The Flight into Egypt and other works by John Harbison (1990). New World Records 80395-2. Performed by The Cantata Singers and Ensemble,...
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    a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach, regarded as one of his most mature and popular sacred cantatas. He composed the chorale cantata in Leipzig...
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    for unaccompanied voices, and virtually premiered in February 2021 by the solo artists of the Cantata Singers and Ensemble in Boston. Child collaborated...
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    cantatas for two singers. The words of Bach's cantatas, almost always entirely in German, consist mostly of 18th-century poetry, Lutheran hymns and dicta...
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  • Music Publishers) Premiered November 21, 1987, by Cantata Singers and Ensemble. Special Awards and Citations - Journalism: Joseph Pulitzer Jr. "For his...
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    Choir (redirect from Chamber Singers)
    in a circle') is a musical ensemble of singers. Choral music, in turn, is the music written specifically for such an ensemble to perform or in other words...
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    wird verwirret (Spirit and soul become confused), BWV 35, is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach. He composed the solo cantata for alto voice in Leipzig...
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  • soprano and baritone, chorus, and chamber orchestra by the American composer John Harbison. The work was commissioned by the Cantata Singers and Ensemble, of...
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    Johann Sebastian Bach composed the church cantata Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben (Heart and mouth and deed and life), BWV 147 in 1723 during his first...
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    last years. Notable singers in the alto range recorded the cantata, male (as in Bach's time, also called altus or countertenor) and female (contralto or...
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  • The Vancouver Cantata Singers (VCS) is an auditioned Canadian choir in Vancouver, British Columbia, founded in 1959 by organist and conductor Hugh McLean...
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  • estate sifted through the many variations and revisions of the score and authorized A White House Cantata, a choral version that deleted nearly all the...
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    Sebastian Bach's vocal music includes cantatas, motets, masses, Magnificats, Passions, oratorios, four-part chorales, songs and arias. His instrumental music...
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    BWV 54, is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach. He composed the solo cantata for alto in Weimar between 1711 and 1714, and probably performed it...
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  • 1998 and marked a departure from his earlier predominantly atonal style. For the premiere, the 40-member (all-white) chorus of the Cantata Singers was...
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    Gott ist mein König, BWV 71 (category Council cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach)
    instrumental ensemble including trumpets and timpani, "four separate instrumental 'choirs', set against a vocal consort of four singers, an optional Capelle...
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  • 7 roles, chorus and full orchestra or chamber ensemble (2001) Whirlwind – Opera with 4 actor singers, mixed chorus, small ensemble and live sound score...
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  • baroque orchestra and chamber ensemble Ricercar Consort: baroque cantatas Vox Luminis: 16th- to 18th-century Italian, German, and English vocal music...
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    (2005) The Stone, cantata for voice and symphony orchestra (Mandelstam, 1983) Earthly Life, chamber cantata for soprano and ensemble (Mandelstam, 1984)...
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  • Young Man, a Chamber Cantata for Speaker, Chorus and Eight Instruments, with Peter Pears (Speaker) / Dorian Singers / Melos Ensemble London conducted by...
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  • Francesco Mancini, G.-C. Rubino Cantata « Lena ». G.-B. Porsile: Cantata sopra l'arcicalascione. Marco Beasley, Ensemble Musica Ficta. Pierre Verany 1989...
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  • T. J. Anderson (category Penn State College of Arts and Architecture alumni)
    music and department chair at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, where he worked until 1990. In 2002, the Cantata Singers and Ensemble commissioned...
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    most frequently in Italy and Vienna—was a typically celebratory or eulogistic dramatic cantata for two or more singers and orchestra, performed outdoors...
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  • become an award‐winning and acclaimed composer. She first came to national attention when her large‐scale work the Gonzales Cantata, a 40-minute choral piece...
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    Mozart Ensemble, in 1980 by members of Berkeley Chorus Pro Musica. The core group of singers had a history of singing together in the SF Bach Choir and the...
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    The Little Singers of Paris (French: Les Petits Chanteurs à la Croix de Bois, literally "Little Singers of the Wooden Cross") is a boys' choir with its...
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    Ich will den Kreuzstab gerne tragen, BWV 56 (category Church cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach)
    "exploited the vocal technique and the interpretative skills of particular singers". Jones describes some of these solo cantatas, especially Vergnügte Ruh...
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  • five-movement solo cantata composed in 1938–1939 by the twentieth-century English composer Gerald Finzi (1901–1956). It is a solo vocal cantata scored for a...
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    Aus der Tiefen rufe ich, Herr, zu dir, BWV 131 (category Church cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach)
    be made is whether to use women singers: Bach's original singers were probably all male. Most recordings of the cantata, however, feature mixed choirs:...
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