How to Use cantata in a Sentence

cantata

noun

• The concert will open with a cantata by the Bach Aria Soloists’ namesake.
  — Patrick Neas, kansascity, 10 June 2018
• The first major addition is the text that bridges the cantata’s three chorales.
  — Mene Ukueberuwa, WSJ, 23 Mar. 2018
• The cantata is also the project that may well be destined to put the 4-year-old L.A. Signal Lab on the terrestrial map.
  — Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2019
• This cantata by Carl Orff is based on two dozen medieval poems.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 10 Mar. 2023
• There is also music, debate, current events, quizzes, and that weird fusion of arts — the cantata.
  — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 12 Sep. 2021
• David Timm conducted the university’s choir and Baroque ensemble in three cantatas, over and above the 33.
  — James R. Oestreich, New York Times, 15 June 2018
• Francis highlighted all the drama in Mozart’s cantata and never allowed the pace to drag.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 June 2019
• At the beginning, the soul is very remorseful and repenting, but the soul is redeemed throughout the cantata.
  — Patrick Neas, kansascity, 10 June 2018
• Each ensemble will present a cantata and an a cappella piece plus a double-choir number that will include all of the singers.
  — oregonlive, 10 Jan. 2022
• With its message of hope just beyond the horizon, the cantata has become a staple of Advent church services.
  — Mene Ukueberuwa, WSJ, 23 Mar. 2018
• The one non-Bach item on the program was a brief cantata by Buxtehude, a composer Bach admired and famously walked 250 miles to hear play the organ.
  — David Weininger, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Oct. 2022
• The composer Georges Bizet is said to have commemorated her with a cantata, although it is now lost.
  — Claudine Doury, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Oct. 2020
• Scored for soprano, two tenors and orchestra, the 20-minute cantata sounds a lot like Haydn but the dominant voice is Cherubini’s.
  — John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 22 June 2018
• No one in the sixties much cared about these—who was going to mount a theatrical production of a pop cantata?—but Lloyd Webber did, and miraculously managed to hold on to his, or, at least, to eighty per cent of them.
  — Steven Strogatz, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2017
• The program began not with an overture, but with Berlioz’ dramatic cantata La mort de Cléopatre.
  — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 11 May 2021
• Nicolai composed the hymn on which the cantata was eventually based in 1598, while everything around him was dying at an alarming speed.
  — Mene Ukueberuwa, WSJ, 23 Mar. 2018
• Robbins follows quite closely the scenario of Stravinsky’s 1923 dance cantata.
  — New York Times, 10 May 2018
• What sets his movie apart are the flavors, feelings and fleeting glimpses of attraction that find as much erotic tension in a volleyball game or alfresco lunch as in sparring over a Bach cantata.
  — Ann Hornaday, idahostatesman, 19 Jan. 2018
• The film is perhaps better suited to young audiences, who will appreciate scenes in which Marie-Josèphe draws inspiration from the mermaid’s song to compose a cantata.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 22 Apr. 2022
• The WCC choir performs cantatas and other special music throughout the year, in addition to regular Sunday worship service music.
  — Courant Community, 30 May 2017
• The different ensembles formed a cohesive group and gave a powerful performance of Orff’s cantata.
  — Jessica Rudman, courant.com, 9 June 2018
• The closing sequence, which is set in Romania (a detail revealed in the closing credits, not the film itself), revolves around Freddie at 33 and, not coincidentally, a Bach cantata invoking Christ.
  — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 May 2022
• Philly sounds, with subtitles What came out was a series of movements that music director Yannick Nézet-Séguin described as something between an oratorio, cantata, and opera, each with subtitles to give the listener bearings in time and place.
  — David Patrick Stearns, Philly.com, 6 Apr. 2018
• His 1898 cantata Hiawatha’s Wedding Feast, based on the popular Longfellow poem, created a sensation.
  — Dallas News, 13 Jan. 2023
• And while operas seem to be something of a comfortable wheelhouse, Hertzberg’s voice finds impressive variety in his orchestral pieces, chamber symphony and cantata for high soprano and orchestra.
  — Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 31 Oct. 2020
• The informal and informational program looks at a cantata and Brandenburg concerto by the master composer.
  — Matthew J. Palm, OrlandoSentinel.com, 18 Mar. 2018
• The 12-hour performance includes three movements: an hourlong live chamber music performance; a 10-hour immersive experience with prerecorded compositions, intermittent live music and projections; and an hourlong cantata.
  — Eva Recinos, Los Angeles Times, 3 Feb. 2023

Last Updated: 22 Jul 2024