Word: cantatas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Christmas Oratorio" of J.S. Bach will be presented at the Fogg Museum tomorrow evening at 8:15 o'clock, by the Bach Cantata Club...
...Cantata Feature...
...feature of the concert will be the performance of Vaughn Williams' cantata "In Windsor Forest," taken from the opera "Sir John in Love." This will be the first time that this cantata has ever been sung in America...
...been studying acting and stage production in London for the past year. Mrs. Herbert Harris, director of the Junior League Glee Club, Boston, will direct the choral score, and the voices will be divided by the Radcliffe Choral Society, New England Conservatory, Handel and Hayden Society, Bach Cantata, Cecilia Society, and Junior League Glee Club. The Pierian Sodality under the direction of Malcolm Holmes '28 will play the instrumental accompaniment...
...concert will open with a Bach cantata, "Christ Lag in Todesbanden." From beginning to end, the themes in this work are all based on the soprano part in the final calm and triumphant choral. Sections of this soprano melody are developed into full-length choruses that tell of Christ's death and resurrection at the beginning of the cantata, and, in the middle, of the horrible struggle between life and death. The work is essentially dramatic; and Mlle. Boulanger's interpretation, though perhaps a bit too a la francaise, brings out the drama to the full...