Cantata Singers records, 1936-1971.

Cantata Singers (New York, N.Y.)

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The Cantata Singers was an amateur choir born out of professional scholarship and a desire to recreate authentic performances of the music of Bach and his predecessors with an emphasis on chamber chorus, chamber orchestra, and the acoustics of a stone-walled church. Cantata Singers was founded in 1934 as Cantata Society of New York by Paul Boepple (1896-1970) as an adjunct of the Dalcroze School, of which Boepple was then director, and changed to Cantata Singers in 1936....

Boepple, Paul, 1896-1970

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Mendel, Arthur, 1905-1979

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After graduation from Harvard University (B.A. 1925), Mendel went to Paris, where he studied with Nadia Boulanger (1925-1927). He was music critic of THE NATION (1930-1933), literary editor for G. Schirmer (1930-1938), editor of the American Musicological Society's journal (1940-1943), and editor for Associated Music Publishers (1941-1947). He was also an active translator. From 1936 to 1953 he conducted the Cantata Singers, one of the first groups in the USA to give authentic performances of Ba...

Mann, Alfred, 1917-2006.

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