But for a full dose of Beethoven Symphonies, Haydn String Quartets, or Bach Cantata streaming it is quite practical.

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The London Symphony Orchestra will also present the world premiere of Mark-Anthony Turnage's At Sixes and Sevens, a new cantata featuring texts by the Pulitzer Prize winning poet Paul Muldoon.

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Instead, in what seems a kind of creative rage, he experimented with every aspect of the cantata form, which traditionally served as a musical meditation on the Scriptural readings of the week.

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Unaware of exactly what it was, I had first seen this cantata-cum-ballet in 1970 at the National Arts Center in Ottawa and been awestruck by the music, the dancing, and the monastic chanting of the earthy love poems.

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It's not often that we stumble upon classical music on the floor at SIGGRAPH, so the tune of Bach's Cantata 147 was reason enough to stop by Gocen's small table in the annual graphics trade show's Emerging Technologies hall.

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