Gregorian chant is freely available and a music of the people – not the domain of a stuffy, Catholic elite as it is often perceived, says a music scholar from ...
“Music for Paradise” was released in England on May 19, few people expected an overnight sensation. Tenth-century Gregorian chant may have its admirers, but it’s not exactly the latest thing to hit ...
It isn't every day that a group of Catholic monks find themselves on the pop charts. Yet that's what happened to the monks of Stift Heiligenkreuz, a 12th-century Cistercian monastery near Vienna, ...
In the basement of Memorial Church, a single mesmerizing voice floated up from 30 participants in a recreational chanting group. Thomas F. Kelly, Morton B. Knafel Professor of Music, began to lead the ...
If you’ve been to a Bend Roots Revival in the last two years, you may have heard frenetic rhythms pulsing across the Deschutes Brewery warehouse lawn, accompanied by droning strings and chanting. The ...