Word: cantata
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Habsburgs' turn. Retreating, the Turks left their coffee sacks behind, and the Austrians took to mocha with the same passion they later devoted to waltzing along the Danube. In Austria's legendary coffeehouses, a great culture grew--from Mozart (who, alas, did not write the Coffee Cantata; that was Bach) to Kafka and Freud. The Habsburg empire was, however, doomed, battered by the French in the 18th century and trounced by the chicory-gulping Prussians in the 19th century...
...Trinity Church Boston ever since its 9th rector, Phillip Brooks, wrote the song "O little town of Bethlehem." Sunday services feature inspiring choral singing. Show up early for a seat. At the Emmanuel Episcopal Church (15 Newbury St.: T: Arlington; 10 a.m.) every Sunday service features a full Bach cantata...
...that Monica's off on her book tour? Fret not. Monica theatrical events abound. The Starr grand jury testimony has been turned into a play, The Trials of Monica Lewinsky, most recently performed at the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival. Texas composer Stephen Hilton's Under Oath: A Political Cantata took its libretto from the same source, and is available on CD. And you can still catch Starr Struck, at left, a musical in L.A. Susan McDougal has seen it twice...
Hallelujah! The Cantata Sirz Singers perform Handel's Messiah. 2:30 p.m., New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall, Tickets call...
...bowling alley. "But you know what's going to happen? The small towns are going to become the big cities all over again." Already nostalgia may have been oversold in some places. Says a resident of Sedalia, Mo.: "We had so many people putting on a cantata for Easter that we didn't have people to listen...