News
November 05, 2004
Cambridge, Mass. (November 5, 2004) - Cantata Singers is proud to announce the law firm of Hanify & King as the organization’s new corporate sponsor. The sponsorship will provide funding for concerts, adult outreach events, Cantata Singers in-school Classroom Cantatas program, and family concerts.
“In this time of cultural shifts and diminishing revenues for arts organizations nationwide, mid-size groups like the Cantata Singers are looking to corporate sponsors to bridge the gap between income and escalating expenses” says Lisa Stiller, Executive Director of the Cantata Singers. “We gratefully acknowledge Hanify & King’s generosity and applaud the firm’s foresight in supporting the arts of today and tomorrow.”
Hanify & King attorney David Kravitz is also a professional singer and is performing in the season opener Scenes from Goethe’s Faust. Kravitz, a baritone, will be performing the role of Faust.
“Hanify and King’s sponsorship of the Cantata Singers is a wonderful opportunity to support an important cultural institution. This also gives us the chance to support one of our colleagues, David Kravitz, who combines his love of singing with his love of the law,” said Attorney John D. Hanify, co-founder of Hanify & King.
About Hanify & King
Since 1980, Hanify & King has been delivering effective, practical solutions to the legal needs of businesses and individuals. Hanify and King, based in Boston, has more than 30 attorneys who work with clients as counsellors, providing advice, guidance, and legal expertise. The firm’s principal areas of practice are litigation, bankruptcy and financial restructuring, business and real estate, employment, alternative dispute resolution and life sciences.
About the Cantata Singers
The Cantata Singers was founded in 1964 to prepare and present what was then a long-neglected repertoire — the cantatas of J.S. Bach. Since that time, led by such distinguished music directors as John Harbison, John Ferris, and David Hoose, the group has expanded its repertoire to include works from the seventeenth century to the present day. Winner of the 1995 ASCAP/Chorus America Award for Adventurous Programming of Contemporary Music, the organization is dedicated to challenging programming, including the commissioning of new works. Under the direction of David Hoose, now in his 22nd season with the ensemble, the group has commissioned and premiered seven major choral-orchestral works: James Primosch’s Matins; T.J. Anderson’s Slavery Documents 2; Andy Vores’s World Wheel; Andrew Imbrie’s Adam; Donald Sur’s Slavery Documents; Peter Child’s Estrella; and John Harbison’s The Flight Into Egypt, winner of the 1987 Pulitzer Prize in Music. The ensemble has recorded works of Bach, Schütz, Schein, Schoenberg, and Stravinsky, as well as that of the American composers Irving Fine, David Chaitkin, Seymour Shifrin, John Harbison, Peter Child, and Charles Fussell. The Cantata Singers’ recordings and performances can be heard regularly on local and national radio, most often on WGBH-FM (Boston) and on the program First Art throughout the United States.
The forty-four member Cantata Singers chorus and chamber orchestra presents an annual four program subscription series, as well as a chamber series under the direction of pianist Kayo Iwama. In addition to its concert activities, the Cantata Singers sponsors an educational program, "Classroom Cantatas", in the Boston Public Schools. This program introduces composition and performance preparation to elementary, middle, and high school students; by the end of the twelve-session residency, students with little or no prior musical experience have written and performed their own musical compositions.
