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Word: cantatas (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...longest work, the haunting Cantata No. 2 for voices, choir and orchestra (1943), takes scarcely a quarter of an hour to perform. The shortest of his Three Small Pieces for Cello and Piano (1914) consists of nine measures. His Six Bagatelles for string quartet (1913) go by in an average of 40 seconds each-expressing, in the words of his mentor Arnold Schoenberg, ''a novel in a single gesture, joy in a single breath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: A Revolution in a Whisper | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

Still, it was the ardent, intelligent music making of Musica Sacra that provided the festival's best moments. They came in the final choral sections of the Magnificat; in the orchestral Suite No. 3 and the Cantata No. 4 ("Christ lag in Todes-banden") under Westenburg; and above all, in resplendent, moving performances of the Mass in B-Minor that Westenburg conducted on opening and closing nights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: A Big Bash for Bach Backers | 7/2/1979 | See Source »

...John Passion--Cantata Singers, Sanders Theater...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Weekly What Listings Calendar: March 1-March 7 | 3/1/1979 | See Source »

...Misbehavin'. This handsome tribute to Fats Waller is a jumpin' Harlem cantata of urban night music. Winner of the New York Drama Critics' Circle and Tony Awards for Best Musical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Bumper Crop | 7/31/1978 | See Source »

Composer William Schuman received the Pulitzer Prize in Music in 1943 for his work, "Secular Cantata No. 2, A Free Song...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: So You Think Hourlies Are Tough? | 3/17/1978 | See Source »

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