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Cantata ensemble compares eras with ‘Extended Arch’

By Matthew Guerrieri

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  November 07, 2011

Friday’s season-opening concert by the Cantata Singers and conductor David Hoose, “The Extended Arch,’’ matched works by J. S. Bach and contemporary composer Stephen Hartke, a discussion across eras. But the contrast brought to the fore a kind of historical diverging of content and technique, with the newer music tending to value craft as an end in itself.

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