Best way to enter a fugue state
Psychiatrists describe a fugue as an altered, intensified mental state that is forgotten once it has
passed. In music, fugues are also mind-altering, but more memorable. Especially as performed by the
Cantata Singers, who have entranced audiences since 1964, when they were founded to revive the cantatas
of Johann Sebastian Bach. The Singers have expanded their repertoire considerably over the years,
performing - at Jordan Hall and other venues - choral works written as long ago as the 15th century and
as recently as the 20th. Directed by David Hoose, who, according to Phoenix classical-music critic Lloyd
Schwartz, "always has illuminating programming ideas," the ensemble this season will perform selections
from songs by Schütz, motets by Brahms, and, of course, cantatas by Bach and Britten.
The Cantata Singers, (617) 267-6502.
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