Word: cantatas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nightclub Cantata is the title director Elizabeth Swados has given to the 75 minutes of theatre that had just put actors and audience back in touch with their world--not just beneath but above, and even within, themselves. The location has since changed to the Charles Playhouse and the off-Broadway cast will soon be replaced, but Cantata is a hit that likely won't leave Boston soon...
Swados has created, composed and directed 21 musical numbers--each a separate attempt to explore the many levels of human interaction through simple song and melody. Nightclub Cantata is part of her search for "new words for music," words, she says, "that will not make either bad poetry or easy emotions." Playing with a vast range of 'foreign' languages, she has set to music "Avesta," an old Persian cursing language, as well as jungle choruses and a bird lament...
...program opened with the Sinfonia from Bach's Cantata No. 209, 'Non sa che sia dolore', written about 1730 in Leipzig. The cantata itself is based on an actual incident--a friend is leaving Germany for his native Italy, and Bach wants to wish him well, despite the sadness in parting. The Sinfonia, in B minor, sets this tone, and somehow greatly resembles the first movement of the D minor violin concerto...
Newton Chamber Orchestra performs Robert Selig's prize-winning cantata, "Islands", the Strauss oboe concerto, and Brahms's Serenade No. 2. Philip Morehead, conductor and Patricia Morehead, oboe soloist...
...publishers have used the word great to distinguish this work from a Mass in the same key written when Mozart was still in his teens. But if ever a score deserved that adjective without qualification, it is K. 427. Composed in 1782-83, its style looks backward to the cantata-type Mass of Bach's day, but its expressiveness and symphonic drive anticipate Beethoven and the romantic era. The performance, led by Conductor-Musicologist Leppard, would be worth having at any price. Offered on Angel's low-priced Seraphim line, it is not to be missed...