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Today’s batch of burning questions, my smart-aleck answers and the real deal: Question: I just got home from the Buncombe County Schools' All County Chorus concert. While some of my elementary school ...

Each work is deeply personal, reflecting the composer’s views on faith, doubt, and Christianity itself. Both are compelling explorations of the significance of the Christian tradition in the modern ...

The final collaboration between Rodgers & Hammerstein was destined to become the world's most beloved musical. When a postulant proves too high-spirited for the religious life, she is dispatched to ...

In 1898 Charles Ives set Psalm 67 to music. The piece begins with an eight-part bitonal chord, the men singing in four parts in G minor and the women in four parts in C major. In The World of ...

“Music is more powerful than people think,” said Mount Airy resident Sandy Day, who has sung with the National Christian Choir for 16 years. “We are 170 voices singing in four-part and sometimes five- ...

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, ...

TARRYTOWN, NEW YORK (RNS) — Twenty-two-year-old soprano Shani Chamovitz flew in on a 10-hour flight from Israel, landing at Newark Airport at 3:30 a.m. on Sunday for the annual North American Jewish ...

A new administrative rule to limit religious music has caused Wausau West High School's elite choir group to temporarily disband and the city's elementary schools to postpone holiday concerts. Wausau ...

In the beginning was the music; the National Christian Choir got started in 1984 without long-term expectations. No one was sure that first year whether the concerts were a one-time phenomenon or ...

Religious leaders from Detroit explore the history and influence of Black religious music. One Detroit contributor Stephen Henderson talks with Rev. Larry Simmons of Baber Memorial AME Church and Dr.