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David Hoose

Concert Review: Cantata Singers Perform “Missa solemnis”

This performance was far more than special and crazily beautiful — it was extraordinary.

By: Susan Miron Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Beethoven, Cantata Singers, David Hoose, Missa solemnis

Concert Review: Cantata Singers — Music That Bears Witness to Catastrophe

Peter Child’s challenge was to match his orchestral and choral music to the harrowing nature of the text — and he worked this out well.

By: Susan Miron Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Cantata Singers, David Hoose, Lamentations, Peter Child, Susan Miron

Concert Review: Cantata Singers — An Evening of Biblical Power

The Cantata Singers prefaced its intriguing, Jewish-themed performance with a marvelously sensory, spiritual experience.

By: Susan Miron Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Cantata Singers, David Hoose, King David, Lazar Weiner, Lynn Torgove, Yehudi Wyner, Yiddish Songs

Concert Review: A Tale of Two Masses in B minor

These are troubling times which make us realize how vital music — especially Bach — is to our souls, to our spiritual wellbeing.

By: Susan Miron Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Andris Nelsons, Bach B minor Mass, Boston Symphony Orchestra, David Hoose, James Burton Tanglewood Festival Chorus, The Cantata Singers

Classical Music Review: Cantata Singers — A Soul-Stirring Performance

There was no question that Music Director David Hoose loves these four pieces. The chorus was meticulously prepared, and sounded wonderful.

By: Susan Miron Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Cantata Singers, David Hoose, John Harbison

Concert Review: The Cantata Singers Celebrates its Fiftieth Season — Bach to the Future

The jam-packed audience for the opening performance of the fiftieth season was filled with Cantata Singers old timers.

By: Susan Miron Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Review Tagged: Bach Cantatas, Cantata Singers, David Hoose

Classical Concert Review: Cantata Singers Deliver the Goods, Passionately

Section by section, Cantata Singers & Ensemble are as good as choral groups get, which in this town of dozens of choruses, says quite a lot.

By: Susan Miron Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music Tagged: David Hoose, Passion, Susan Miron, The Cantata Singers

Classical Music Sampler: March 2012

This month I am simply listing concerts I expect will be great. My pick of the month is the Boston debut of a new Flute, Viola, and Harp trio, starring instrumental superstars Marina Piccinini, Kim Kashkashian, and Sivan Magen.

By: Susan Miron Filed Under: Classical Music, Coming Attractions, Featured, Music Tagged: Blue Heron, Bridget Kibbey, Cantata Singers, Chameleon Arts Ensemble, Church of St. John Evangelist, David Hoose, First Monday at Jordan Hall, Frederic Chiu, John Gibbons, Kim Kashkashian, Marina Piccinini, Masterworks Chorale, Musica Sacra, Sequentia, Sivan Magen, The Chamber Music Center of Lincoln Center

Concert Review: Cantata Singers Warble an “Astonished Breath”

The Cantata Singers approached both works with the sensitivities that each required. Music Director David Hoose retained the intensity of the music through his economic and unpretentious, but insistent, conducting.

By: Anthony J. Palmer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music Tagged: -Arvo-Pärt, Alfred Schnittke, David Hoose, The Cantata Singers

Classical Music Review: Boston’s Cantata Singers

Boston’s Cantata Singers opens its 48th season with an eclectic musical mix of the Baroque and the Modern.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Classical Music, Music Tagged: Cantata Singers, David Hoose, Peggy Pearson, Stephen Hartke

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