For one member of "the Pope's Choir," the Catholic Church, while appreciating sacred music, has in some respects lost the art of singing it in her parishes, prompting the need for a revival of ...
As the first album ever to be recorded inside the Sistine Chapel is released, Archbishop Georg Ganswein said the sacred music featured is not something of the past, but continues to play a role in ...
Divine-worship goal aimed at reviving Catholic arts and music is Bolstered by new endeavor in San Francisco. The San Quentin Scola venue kicked off the Benedict XVI Institute’s new activities in a ...
Mormons carry a special "music gene," some like to say, given how commonly they take piano lessons, fill school choirs and make music so central to church life and activities like weekly Family Home ...
Five LDS women attended the Sacred Music Night to support their friends in the gospel choir. From left: Krystal Scott, Kaci Whitney, Ann Marie Cherry, Bethany Cherry, Melodie Jackson. SALT LAKE CITY - ...
(RNS) — We may notice it more at Christmastime or at the movies, but sacred choral music has the power to move all of us, religious or secular, just about any time. (RNS) — If you’re wondering what ...
The sound defies mere singing, pulsing though the church sanctuary with sufficient force to put hell on alert. For three days this month singers from the United States, Canada and Britain gathered to ...
From the time I was a child, music has played a big part in my Christian faith. My dad was a church organist/choirmaster and I sang in his children’s choir at our Presbyterian church in upstate New ...
Ask Peter Phillips, founder and longtime director of the Tallis Scholars — renowned specialists in a cappella sacred music from the Renaissance — about the global appeal of the group’s sound, and his ...
Editor’s note: To listen along as you read, click the links in the text. These pieces were performed for The Economist by the choir of Jesus College, Cambridge. IN 1605 Charles de Ligny, a Frenchman, ...
SOUTH BEND — Each Thursday morning, Ava Lynn rises from her bed in Granger, and asks her mom the same question: “I have choir?” The 10-year-old, who was adopted from China two years ago, loves to swim ...