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Orff originally wrote it for tenor, that soloist’s single appearance in the cantata.
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Hannah Edgar,
Chicago Tribune,
16 Aug. 2025
Symphony San Jose is presenting the cantata in partnership with several Chinese American organizations, promising a performance of grandeur and a call for peace in the world.
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Randy McMullen,
Mercury News,
14 Aug. 2025
More than just capitalizing on the then-new compact disc format, the packages declared that these were substantial artists with catalogs that deserve the same respect a classical label would give to Bach’s cantatas.
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David Browne,
Rolling Stone,
10 Jan. 2025
For the prequel films, Williams stretched his score palette to include pagan choral cantatas, throat singing — and, yes, even electric guitar.
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Tim Greiving,
HollywoodReporter,
3 Sep. 2019
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Hannah Edgar,
Chicago Tribune,
16 Aug. 2025
Symphony San Jose is presenting the cantata in partnership with several Chinese American organizations, promising a performance of grandeur and a call for peace in the world.
—
Randy McMullen,
Mercury News,
14 Aug. 2025
More than just capitalizing on the then-new compact disc format, the packages declared that these were substantial artists with catalogs that deserve the same respect a classical label would give to Bach’s cantatas.
—
David Browne,
Rolling Stone,
10 Jan. 2025
For the prequel films, Williams stretched his score palette to include pagan choral cantatas, throat singing — and, yes, even electric guitar.
—
Tim Greiving,
HollywoodReporter,
3 Sep. 2019
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cantata
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Take The Music Lesson, a study of a young woman playing the virginal, closely watched by a gentleman, which Graham-Dixon reads as a depiction of Collegiants chastely performing and singing psalms.
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Over the course of Gregory Orr’s long career, his poems have become increasingly incantatory, more and more like chants or psalms, repeating, reformulating, reaching for the edges of the same rich metaphors.
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The score by Joseph Bishara is shivery with chorales that moan like wraiths in the wind.
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Synchronized blinking faded when the researchers sped up the Bach chorales to 120 beats per minute.
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The ceremony included Colombia's national anthem but also the rebel hymn of the Border Commandos -- the lyrics of which make no mention of the group's crimes.
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For centuries, spiritual hymns have kept hope alive, even more so for the enslaved.
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Paul drove into Wilkes-Barre from Princeton on Christmas Day after the chapel service and dropped his bags at a forlorn motor lodge on Public Square—Christmas carols dragging at slow speed on its sound system—and swung by my parents.
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That's4Entertainment's Christmas Con 2026 will take place at the New Jersey Expo Center in Edison, New Jersey, from December 11-13, and its halls will be decked to the gills with carols, tree lightings and sweet treats.
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Pre-show festivities kicked off the event with DJs playing hits from their homeland and classic party anthems from the United States.
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My kumbaya heart nevertheless jumped as the anthem continued.
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That realization led him to a collection of honky-tonk stompers, highway ballads and intimate character studies.
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The slow-burn thriller is partially based on a 17th century ballad in which the heroic outlaw’s cousin, a malevolent prioress, bleeds the older, ailing Robin to death under the guise of the ancient medical treatment known as bloodletting.
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Gustave Doré, the celebrated French illustrator, did elaborate engravings for the three canticles in the mid-19th century and devoted 99 out of 135 of them to Dante Alighieri’s darkest scenes.
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That’s the opening line of Slipknot’s rage-rot canticle.
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But, as with effectively a new group needing to gel, time was always going to be required for heroes to emerge and inspire terrace chants to replace or supplement the ditties to ‘Super Paul Mullin’, ‘White Pele’ (Elliot Lee) et al.
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All the more reason to keep this bouncy ditty on loop.
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“Cantata.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cantata. Accessed 30 Jun. 2026.
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