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Recent Examples of cantor
In 1933, Berg ran what amounted to a Very Special Episode: a full Seder, sung by a real cantor, which Pepsodent, her sponsor, agreed to air without ads.
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Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 9 June 2025
The piece invokes the singing style of a synagogue’s cantor, who often sings many notes over a single syllable.
—Jane Levere, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2025
Jason Schwartzman stars as a recent widower, unable to fulfill his duties as a cantor at an upstate New York synagogue.
—Jason Bailey, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2025
While gathering some of their things, Grater called Ruth Berman Harris, the cantor at Pasadena Jewish Temple and Center (PJTC), where Grater, 54, had served as rabbi for 12 years before leaving in 2015 and becoming a congregant.
—Jordan Greene, People.com, 17 Jan. 2025
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Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 9 June 2025
The piece invokes the singing style of a synagogue’s cantor, who often sings many notes over a single syllable.
—Jane Levere, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2025
Jason Schwartzman stars as a recent widower, unable to fulfill his duties as a cantor at an upstate New York synagogue.
—Jason Bailey, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2025
While gathering some of their things, Grater called Ruth Berman Harris, the cantor at Pasadena Jewish Temple and Center (PJTC), where Grater, 54, had served as rabbi for 12 years before leaving in 2015 and becoming a congregant.
—Jordan Greene, People.com, 17 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cantor
Noun
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The weight of the sound—incorporating five vocal soloists, thirty choristers, and thirty-three instrumentalists—harks back to lumbering mid-twentieth-century accounts by Otto Klemperer and Hermann Scherchen, before the original-instrument movement dictated light textures and fleet tempos.—
Alex Ross,
New Yorker,
23 June 2025
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The voices of the opera’s chorus are being provided by a choir which John conducts, the Pacific Coast Chorale, supplemented by two onstage choristers.—
Pam Kragen,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
25 May 2025
Noun
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The occult reputation also contributed to the singer’s iconic nickname, the Prince of Darkness.—
Matthew Strauss,
Pitchfork,
22 July 2025
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And a lot bigger than being the ex-lead singer of Black Sabbath.—
Matthew Schnipper,
Vulture,
22 July 2025
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The main chanter was Obsidian Tiburon, a Taino representative of the American Indian Movement who came down from Orlando to attend the protest.—
Milena Malaver,
Miami Herald,
29 Mar. 2025
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On a separate platform to the right of the action, three male chanters sit in a neat row, next to men playing the shamisen, a stringed instrument with a raw and piercing tone which is often used in vocal accompaniment.—
Jennifer Homans,
The New Yorker,
28 Oct. 2024
Noun
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This week’s Talcott Mountain Music Festival concert finds the Hartford Symphony Orchestra backing three different vocalists — LaKisha Jones, Nova Y. Payton, and Armando Imagines — who collectively evoke the style and energy of the late great Tina Turner.—
Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
12 July 2025
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Sellars had worked with Sairam, the South Indian vocalist, who made contributions of her own.—
Laura van Straaten,
New York Times,
11 July 2025
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Musicians including psych rocker Damon Krukowski and power pop songster Ted Leo have taken to X to blast out their support.—
Caitlin Harrington,
WIRED,
6 Oct. 2023
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Nevertheless, the songster’s rise to stardom is mystifying.—
Quartz,
Quartz,
25 Nov. 2022
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“Cantor.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cantor. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.
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