Word: cantata
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...concert by the Glee Club and Pierian, announced for Friday evening, promises to be one of more than ordinary interest. A programme of unusual novelty and merit has been prepared, and both organizations have spent a long time in rehearsing. The chief feature of the programme is a "Tragic Cantata," entitled "The Grasshopper," to be given by the Glee Club, accompanied by the Pierian. This cantata was recently given at the Grand Opera House in Baltimore with great success, but has never been heard in Boston. The Glee Club also have some new college songs, which they intend to sing...
...Friday's concert, the Glee Club and Pierian will unite in giving "The Grasshopper," a tragick cantata. This will be the first time in several years that the Glee Club and Pierian have been heard together...
Prof. Paine is writing a cantata to be given by the Handel and Haydn Society of Boston...
...feature of interest in the scheme of the coming May festival of the Boston Handel and Haydn Society is a cantata for solo voices, chorus and orchestra by Prof. John K. Paine, the words of which are from Milton's ode, "On the morning of Christ's Nativity...
...Cantata, "A Stronghold Saro."......Bach Bass Recitative, Mr. Whitney; Tenor Recitative, Mr. Candidos...