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Recent Examples of cantorIn 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.—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 See All Example Sentences for cantor
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.
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Alex Ross,
New Yorker,
23 June 2025
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.
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Pam Kragen,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
25 May 2025
The main chanter was Obsidian Tiburon, a Taino representative of the American Indian Movement who came down from Orlando to attend the protest.
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Milena Malaver,
Miami Herald,
29 Mar. 2025
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.
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.
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Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
12 July 2025
Sellars had worked with Sairam, the South Indian vocalist, who made contributions of her own.
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Laura van Straaten,
New York Times,
11 July 2025
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