Word: cantatas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pulitzer Prize for "Secular Cantata...
...like a jovially lavish host, and the evening is like a rollicking party-a "rent party," perhaps, that Harlem Depression phenomenon where guests put a small sum in the household kitty and jazzmen improvised from midnight to dawn. There are 27 numbers in all and they compose an ebullient cantata of urban night music. The audience could almost sing along with Honeysuckle Rose, Mean to Me, Keepin' Out of Mischief Now, and that powerful elegy to black sorrow, Black and Blue...
Boston Symphony Orchestra--Symphony Hall at 7:30. The Cantata Singers--Sanders Theatre...
Beatrice Erdely--Jordan Hall at 8:00. The Cantata Singers...
Linda Feferman's "Liz Swados: The Girl with the Incredible Feeling" is the most dramatic of the films, owing largely to the personality of Swados, composer/director of the hit play "Nightclub Cantata," recently presented by the Boston Repertory Theatre. Swados is a sorcerer, she is a bird, she is a little girl, and she is a demon. Her originality and vitality make the film. At one point, Feferman craftily slides into an animated version of the Swados book with the same title as the film. The film suffers only because it is not as experimental as its subject...