The approach is varied, to say the least: at times the chant is set to drones, at others to simple organum; some is simply doubled at the octave with mixed voices. On the other hand, Officium eschew ...

The monks of Heiligenkreuz Abbey in Austria sing ancient Gregorian chants in their 12th-century church — and then post them to YouTube. Their technological savvy landed them a record deal, and now ...

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John Pawson is famous for his elegantly austere Calvin Klein store in New York. Now he has turned his minimalist genius to a Cistercian monastery in the Czech Republic. The monks had second thoughts ...

Stift Heiligenkreuz (in the Vienna woods) is Europe's largest continually inhabited Cistercian monastery. And the good life being led by the monks there involves some fairly radical lifestyle ...