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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 Margarita shares a special bond with her father, Avi - a doting Israeli who is a cantor at their local synagogue - ever since her mother, Marsha, abandoned the family.—Troy McMullen, ABC News, 8 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 See All Example Sentences for cantor
In the Shadow of the Stars put the divas in the background to focus on the lives of 11 men and women choristers at the San Francisco opera house.
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Mike Barnes,
HollywoodReporter,
8 Oct. 2025
Already Guerrero seems to be able to convey of-the-moment phrasings and character directions with a few emphatic motions—a roller-coaster swoop here, a waggle of the fingers there—and get an immediate response from the choristers.
Eilish played Desert Diamond Arena in Glendale, Arizona, in December 2024, at a previous stop on the tour, where the singer was hit in the face with what appeared to be a flying bracelet.
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Ed Masley,
AZCentral.com,
10 Oct. 2025
While the lead singers are on the rise and were less globally known before the film’s success, the cast also included Ahn Hyo-seop and Lee Byung-hun, who together brought decades of experience and followers to the project.
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.
The impeccable fusion between the organic and the electronic sounds, distinctive of the band led by vocalist Li Saumet, highlights the Caribbean drums, synthesizers and vallenato-style guitars converging at the same point.
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Tere Aguilera,
Billboard,
10 Oct. 2025
Founding drummer Graeme Edge died in 2021, original vocalist Denny Laine died in 2023, and founding keyboardist Mike Pinder died in 2024.
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