Jacob Ashworth, Cantata Profana's impressive artistic director, conducted the fearless players.
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Wednesday's program presented the secular Cantata No. 215, whose grand opening chorus, reworked from another secular cantata, formed the basis for the Osanna of the B minor Mass, performed here along with the Mass's Sanctus and Dona Nobis Pacem.
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The Hubble Cantata is currently raising funds for an international tour on Kickstarter.
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The drawing is baroque grandeur in microminiature — like a Bach cantata sung by gnats.
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In "Les Noces," Robbins follows quite closely the scenario of Stravinsky's 1923 dance cantata.
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Yet, Marissen concludes, this cantata is a poor vehicle for righteous anger against Jews.
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In 1969 he arranged an earlier revolutionary cantata into the "Yellow River Piano Concerto".
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Tuesday's program offered the sacred Cantata No. 110, whose opening chorus is based on the overture of Bach's Orchestral Suite No. 4, alongside the secular Cantata No. 207, whose opening chorus and an instrumental ritornello are developed from the "Brandenburg" Concerto No. 1.
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Saturday's program pays homage to Bach with a harpsichord concerto, a cantata and an orchestral suite.
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Each cantata was followed by the corresponding modern "response," this time accompanied by players from ICE.
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My expectations for the Hubble Cantata, vaguely based on sci-fi imaginings of VR, were impossibly high.
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In his father's church, in San Diego, he played Pontius Pilate's water boy in an Easter cantata.
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Jacob Ashworth, Cantata Profana's artistic director, conducted a suspenseful account of this radically episodic and spacey score.
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"A successful performance of a Bach cantata or passion demands individuality of expression from every person," he said.
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When composing the cantata, Prestini took a synesthetic approach to translating the Hubble's Orion Nebula images into music.
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Somehow you hear the rumble of motorcycles with a new interest and curiosity: it's a John Cage cantata.
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Two early orchestral works are featured, the Passacaglia and "Im Sommerwind," as well as the Cantata No. 2.
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Instead of tearing the hate mail up, however, the orchestra decided to turn the letter into a beautiful cantata.
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The reimagining wasn't quite as effective as Mr. Audi's 2014 recasting of Schoenberg's cantata "Gurre-Lieder" as an opera.
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Who can forget the great mezzo-soprano Lorraine Hunt Lieberson in the Cantata No. 203, "Mein Herze Schwimmt im Blut"?
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She wrote a number of such works over the years, not just "The Haggadah: A Passover Cantata" and the oratorio "Jerusalem."
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For that he won prizes, producing a cantata on the Samaritan woman, an oratorio on the Apocalypse, and a wind quintet.
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No one in the sixties much cared about these—who was going to mount a theatrical production of a pop cantata?
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Interspersed with recorded voice-overs by the astrophysicist Mario Livio, the cantata offers an anthropomorphic tale of cosmic birth and death.
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The mezzo-soprano Kirstin Chávez was uneasy of pitch in an early Bach cantata and strident in a dusky Zemlinsky song.
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PRINCETON "Bach Cantata Fest," Dryden Ensemble concert with baritone William Sharp in Bach Cantatas 39 and 56 and selected Bach arias. Jan.
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In the past year, the theater put on a cantata and an opera with volunteers, but none of its traditional ballet performances.
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To experience The Hubble Cantata, viewers must download an app, which is expected to be released this week on the performance's Kickstarter.
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"And After the Fire," partly based in history, posits the rediscovery of a fictional Bach church cantata with a particularly bilious text.
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When a favorite uncle dies, Susanna Kessler, the protagonist of this provocative novel, inherits the manuscript of a previously unknown Bach cantata.
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PRINCETON "Bach Cantata Fest," a Dryden Ensemble concert with baritone William Sharp in Bach Cantatas 82 and 158 and selected Bach arias. Jan.
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At this unique VR experience, The Hubble Cantata, viewers will turn their attention to the skies while simultaneously participating in a communal event.
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WESTFIELD "Enter the Dragon," New Jersey Festival Orchestra presents Xinghai's "Yellow River Cantata" and Dvorak's "From the New World," conducted by David Wroe.
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Some have avoided the touchy "opera" category entirely by calling it a serenata, a sort of dramatic cantata popular in the Baroque period.
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Lang Lang and seven year-old Li Muzi perform part of the Yellow River Cantata at the opening ceremony of Beijing's Olympic Games.
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Recently, Cantata Profana, an outstanding ensemble that mingles music and theater, found a way to dramatize "Lucrezia" while remaining true to its style.
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The conductor Julian Wachner announced that musician's death at midpoint in the program, after a psychedelic rendition of Ginastera's outlandish "Cantata Bomarzo" (Op. 32).
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Richard Alston's "Rejoice in the Lamb," set to Benjamin Britten's cantata adaptation of a poem by Christopher Smart, was the most cohesive offering. Derivative?
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Before heading into an operation, neurosurgeon Mark McLaughlin sits by himself and listens to a Bach cantata, then walks swiftly into the operating room.
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This performance, despite the distinguished setting, served in the end mainly to reaffirm the consistently high quality of the cantata performances over the weekend.
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She wrote a number of works on Jewish themes, including "The Haggadah: A Passover Cantata" and "Jerusalem," an oratorio adapted from poems by Yehuda Amichai.
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The other, Ted Hearne, was recognized for "Sound from the Bench," a cantata for choir (the extraordinary Crossing, out of Philadelphia), electric guitars and drums.
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The performing forces expanded a bit on Friday for Handel's early secular cantata "Apollo e Dafne" and on Saturday for three of Bach's ripest creations.
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AMERICAN COMPOSERS ORCHESTRA The young composer David Hertzberg impressed last year with "Sunday Morning," an unusually unshowy, memorably delicate cantata for New York City Opera.
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I find him heartening; he was this extraordinary genius of Western music and he had, like, 20 children and he wrote a cantata a week.
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His earliest successes had such broad appeal that his cantata "Ballad for Americans" was performed at both the Communist and Republican presidential conventions in 1940.
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In 2015, Herrmann discovered the score of a cantata, "Per la ricuperata salute di Ofelia," with one section composed by Salieri and another by Mozart.
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" SETH COLTER WALLS Handel told the horrific tale of the rape of Lucretia, most famous as a Britten work, in a solo cantata called "Lucrezia.
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This isn't the start of a bad joke (though it might be that, too) but the premise for the Hubble Cantata, a multimedia journey through space.
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Saturday's concert is more adventurous, featuring Mahler's Symphony No. 6 and a new cantata by Salvatore Sciarrino, "La nuova Euridice secondo Rilke," sung by Barbara Hannigan.
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The vixen soprano in Bach's "Coffee Cantata" isn't shy about proclaiming her addiction to the dark brew, which she says tastes sweeter than a thousand kisses.
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But Mr. Botstein's program opened with a rarity by the lesser-known Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, "Erzittert und fallet" ("Tremble and falter"), a 30-minute church cantata.
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Handel's 1708 dramatic cantata receives a rare performance featuring three fine leads — Anthony Roth Costanzo, Davoné Tines and Ambur Braid — and a star director, Christopher Alden.
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Since 2013, Cantata Profana has been presenting shows, as they call them, which are often semi-staged and typically juxtapose very old and very new music.
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Word of the Day : a musical composition for voices and orchestra based on a religious text _________ The word cantata has appeared in 22 articles on nytimes.
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Here the inspiration was the ethereal anguish of Buxtehude's "Membra Jesu nostri," a seven-cantata cycle of meditations on Christ's suffering in various parts of his body.
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" That sentence, with its obvious sexual panic, should probably be sung to "The Vagina Dentata Cantata," a made-up ditty in Sigrid Nunez's terrific novel "Naked Sleeper.
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"Aci," composed in Naples in 1708 when Handel was 23, is a kind of dramatic cantata, commissioned by an Italian duchess to help celebrate her niece's wedding.
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The Bach program included another fine baritone, Tyler Duncan, excelling in the death-resigned Cantata No. 82, "Ich Habe Genug" ("I Have Enough"), right down to its depths.
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Within the life span of our galaxy, the premiere of Paola Prestini's "The Hubble Cantata" at the Prospect Park Bandshell on Saturday night barely registers as a blip.
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" Bach had worked with these very tenets earlier in his career, when he composed glorious musical settings of them in his Cantata No. 172, "Ring Out, Ye Songs.
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Oh, and did I mention that Saturday brings a dive into sacred love, with 16th-century brass pieces, contemporary choral works, a Bach cantata and solo-organ fantasias?
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The program begins with Debussy's 1906 transcription of the prelude to his cantata "La Damoiselle Élue," which is based on a poem and painting by Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
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But the intrepid chamber ensemble Cantata Profana included an elegiac solo vocal work by Guillaume de Machaut on an imaginative program last Sunday at National Sawdust in Brooklyn.
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The epic arrangement was recorded right after a version of Fistful of Stars, called The Hubble Cantata, screened to a crowd at a free show in Brooklyn last year.
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Scored for 13 percussionists — playing dozens of instruments, often at earsplitting volume — and a grossly outmatched soprano, Ginastera's six-part, 25-minute cantata rages and pounds, wild yet precise.
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The excellent and adventurous young musicians of Cantata Profana gave a rare and quietly riveting performance of Mr. Sciarrino's strange piece on Friday at St. Peter's Church in Chelsea.
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This eclectic bent was on full display in "Nightclub Cantata," a revue produced at the Village Gate in 1977, based on texts by Sylvia Plath, Pablo Neruda and other poets.
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This invigorating ensemble centers this program on Handel's "La Lucrezia," a solo cantata that takes us into Lucretia's psyche after her rape, sung here by the mezzo-soprano Annie Rosen.
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A second violinist, Anna Fusek, showed similar versatility, doubling on soprano recorder in the high-flying bird song of Handel's "Augelletti che cantata" (from "Rinaldo"), and brought the house down.
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MICHAEL MARISSEN Actually, it might be worth pointing out right away that the anti-Jewish polemic in the fictional cantata is not really any worse than what's in Bach's vocal works.
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Music in the lineup for that concert includes Xian Xinghai's "Yellow River Cantata" and the Sun Yat Sen Symphonic Suite (singers include Zhang Xueliang, Song Yuanming, Yuan Chenye and Yang Yan).
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" Mr. Hearne, whose cantata "Sound From the Bench" was a finalist, praised the decision to award the Pulitzer to Mr. Lamar, calling him "one of the greatest living American composers, for sure.
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That mission was accomplished over the weekend with the premiere of Suzanne Farrin's "La Dolce Morte," a dramatic cantata in the form of a song cycle for countertenor and small chamber ensemble.
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This was the Hubble Cantata, a staggeringly ambitious work that attempted to bring the cosmos down to Brooklyn and make sweaty crowds bordered by beer tents and porta-potties feel like astronauts.
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In 1961, two works by Alberto Ginastera — his Piano Concerto No. 1 and "Cantata Para América Mágica" — were given their premieres in Washington as part of the second Inter-American Music Festival.
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But then, even in this boom time for early music in New York, where could you hope to find the four virtuosos on Baroque trumpet that Bach requires in that blessed cantata?
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The day typically began with the "Cantata of the Alley," the sound of night stools (bucket-shape latrines) as they were cleaned with bamboo sticks after being emptied by night soil men.
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Mr. Gilbertson, 30 as well, wrote a string quartet that veers from glassy to robust, and Mr. Hearne, 35, wrote "Sound From the Bench," a cantata for chamber choir, electric guitars and drums.
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Ginastera was so taken with the novel "Bomarzo," by Manuel Mujica Láinez, that he composed an opera based on it, as well as a cantata, scored for baritone, speaker and percussion-heavy orchestra.
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Their performance of the big cantata "Die Himmel erzählen die Ehre Gottes" suffered from the necessary amplification, but these performers were heard to powerful effect that afternoon in three cantatas at the Nikolaikirche.
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Each week he presented a cantata by himself or by another composer — a "sermon in sound," as it was often called at the festival — relating to the Gospel text for the particular Sunday.
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In the next big event, on June 12, one of the cantata interpreters, Masaaki Suzuki, led his Bach Collegium Japan in Mendelssohn's great oratorio "Elijah," at the Gewandhaus, the city's main concert hall.
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SETH COLTER WALLS "Orphic Moments," a double bill of Matthew Aucoin's cantata "The Orphic Moment" and Gluck's "Orfeo ed Euridice," was breathtaking when it had its premiere two years ago at National Sawdust.
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But in the show's first incarnation it was often difficult to discern the central story in a plot so over-tangled with issues that it came to seem like a cantata of discontent.
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Mr Järvi, for his part, has even created a production company to accompany his musical efforts; last autumn he premiered Regular Crisis, a "multi-media cantata" on the topic of recurring global financial crises.
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A parallel example of a soloist's hollow virtuosity fluttering atop an elegant dance-like group refrain is the alto aria from Bach's church cantata "Whoever may love me will keep my word" (BWV 74).
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The music Pulitzer was established in 19923 as a celebration of homegrown art in the midst of World War II; the first winner was a briskly patriotic cantata by the Neo-Classicist William Schuman.
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The first, on Friday, takes the Eternal City as its theme, with Bizet's "Roma," Respighi's "Pines of Rome" and Berlioz's cantata "La Mort de Cléopâtre," which the French composer entered for the Prix de Rome.
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While a work such as the Philadelphia Symphony stands firmly in a neoclassical idiom, its wistful lyricism points to Mahler, whose influence came out in full colors in the cantata "An die Nachgeborene" ("To Posterity").
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Ted Hearne has made himself a vital, politically inclined composer with pieces like his oratorio about Chelsea Manning, "The Source," and "Sound From the Bench," a cantata decrying the corporate takeover of the Supreme Court.
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Its hauntingly beautiful images, accompanied by The Hubble Cantata—which includes a 30 piece ensemble, a 100 person choir, and two singers from the Metropolitan Opera—gives the film a 2001 feel without the murderous robots.
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Ginastera's cantata delves into the fractured psyche of Pier Francesco Orsini, a 16th-century military leader and art patron who commissioned a garden filled with grotesque sculptures that in their hedonistic absurdity seem to prefigure Surrealism.
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In 1997, the Bernstein and Lerner estates put together a concert piece for voices and orchestra called "A White House Cantata," which has been recorded by soloists and the London Symphony Orchestra, with Kent Nagano conducting.
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The piece, which draws on British and Continental traditions—Smyth was a committed cosmopolitan—is hard to categorize: Smyth called it a "symphony," but it's closer to a tone poem, with elements of cantata and oratorio.
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" Baroque brass works and hypnotic contemporary choral pieces gave way to a Bach cantata with the countertenor Iestyn Davies and, in closing, Liszt's sprawling, visionary Fantasy and Fugue on a chorale from Meyerbeer's opera "Le Prophète.
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His critics have claimed that Bach cannot be anti-Jewish, because a cantata like "Schauet doch und sehet" does not actually name Jews as enemies, and because violence against Jews is nowhere advocated in Bach's work.
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This cantata, with a text presenting God as the fearless victor over blustering dark spirits, begins with a startling dramatic stroke: the unaccompanied chorus sings sputtered declamations of the word "Erzittert" to grab the listener's attention.
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Herrmann's discovery of the "Ofelia" cantata—a brief setting of a poem by Da Ponte, composed sequentially by Mozart, Salieri, and a forgotten person named Cornetti—puts the supposed enmity between the two composers in perspective.
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But at this particularly unsettled moment, hearing the cantata "Ich habe genug" — about someone who, having experienced her savior's embrace, no longer feels part of this troubled world — sung by the mezzo-soprano Kady Evanyshyn was overwhelming.
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What that meant, Mr. Wollny said, was that Bach typically had to write a cantata in three days — from, say, Sunday afternoon to Wednesday morning — before turning it over to copyists to prepare the parts for rehearsal.
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I was happy to see it return in a production by MasterVoices this week, though in a slightly unconvincing form that wove the cantata into Act III of the Gluck, rather than present the two works separately.
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WESTFIELD "Enter the Dragon," New Jersey Festival Orchestra presents Xian Yellow River Cantata featuring Chinese choirs from New York and New Jersey conducted by Shuang Guo; Dvorak Symphony No. 9 "From the New World" conducted by David Wroe.
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Here Ms. Herreid plays the oboe obbligato part in Bach's exquisite Cantata No. 82, "Ich habe genug," as sung by the bass-baritone Jonathan Woody, another performer of whom much the same could be said, with Brooklyn Baroque.
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Mr. Lang's Pulitzer, for example, came in 2008 for his quietly chilling "Little Match Girl Passion," an ethereal cantata light years removed from his brake-drum-clanging "cheating, lying, stealing," from 1995, performed with raucous verve at Zankel.
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" BILL CASTELLINO has worked on a dozen of Ms. Swados's shows, including last month's revival of "Nightclub Cantata" at the York Theater: I was very attracted to her drive to, as she put it, "redefine the idea of song.
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" But this program, featuring the contemporary music orchestra Novus NY and the Trinity Wall Street Choir, couples a rare performance of Ginastera's "Cantata para América mágica," scored for soprano and a big percussion orchestra, with Stravinsky's exuberant "Les Noces.
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Across six languages and genres, she nimbly brought us from the Rossini cantata "Giovanna d'Arco" — gripping and all the more urgent in the enveloping acoustics of the Frick's Music Room — to excerpts from William Bolcom's "Cabaret Songs" (1963-96).
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" Recordings of Mr. Wuorinen's more recent music, released on the Bridge label, reveal a continued preoccupation with formal rigor, but also a new sense of playfulness, as in the eloquent Fourth Piano Sonata and the absurdist cantata "It Happens Like This.
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After his oratorio about Chelsea Manning, Mr. Hearne, one of our more interesting young composers, continues exploring the events of the day with "Sound From the Bench," a cantata based in part on the oral arguments of Citizens United v.
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