Word: cantata
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...Breathe”—the vignette which capped the evening—was choreographed by Jodi Leigh Allen and set to a Cantata Mundi by Karl Jenkins. The stage floor was laid bare for this performance and the lights focused in on the dancers. The piece was the largest of the compilation with ten dancers dressed in minimal tarzan-like costume. Elements of the wild were revealed elsewhere in the dancing, particularly when the dancers were grouped close to each other and moved in unison in an almost mob-like fashion. Elemental in its simplicity...
...reason is that they're great pieces. But you're right to think that other pieces could fit. There's no Mozart or Bach here. First, you have to pick a piece that you know enough about to make a plausible reconstruction of the first performance. For a Bach cantata, you may not know enough about how it worked or when it first was performed. These five pieces also span a broad history of music. We go from the very late Renaissance to 20th-century music. For a person who only studies music in a limited manner, this book...
...could go to synagogue and sing a Bach cantata then I'd be there every week," he says...