The transformational energy of dying was apparent to Barbara McAfee when her father-not a cuddly man generally-became sweeter in the process of talking with his family about his pending death from ...
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 ...
Boys' choirs have been a tradition in the Catholic Church since the Middle Ages, when men and women did not sing together in public, and boys' higher-pitched voices were needed to round out the sound ...
A rare sound from The Vatican filled the air in Brookville Sunday night, as singers brought centuries of sacred music to St. Paul the Apostle Church. “It felt like you were sitting in the Sistine ...
The choral sound was balanced and the music was inspiring. But Eric Oliver, founding music director of the Loretta C. Manggrum Chorale, wasn’t happy. “Ya’ll sound like the lion in ‘The Wizard of Oz,’ ...
DECATUR – Heavenly music in a sacred place gave a Decatur audience the perfect escape route from the ravages of winter Sunday afternoon. The University Choir of Millikin University concluded a ...
We have all heard it, yet most of us would not be able to name it. The term polyphony (from the Greek for “many sounds”) is used to describe music that employs simultaneous yet independent melodies.
With a lineage going back more than 550 years to the reign of Henry VI, the Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, enjoys a sterling reputation for tonal beauty and technical polish. The current roster ...
NEWBURYPORT — The Holy Redeemer Immaculate Conception Collaborative adult choir will perform sacred music, hymns, spirituals and instrumentals at Immaculate Conception Church on Sunday, Sept. 25, from ...
LENOX — For decades after the Bolshevik Revolution, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s reinvention of sacred music from the Russian Orthodox Church went unheard. Tchaikovsky’s composition was a departure from ...
Join us for an unusual programme of 20th and 21st Century music. James Whitbourn's Son of God Mass (2000) was written for SATB choir, organ and soprano saxophone. We have paired this with Richard ...