Choirs and ensembles dedicated to preserving and transmitting the Church’s timeless musical heritage are surging, inspiring faith and drawing hearts closer to God through beauty. (Clockwise from Left) ...

The apostolates that have taken up this task of sanctifying culture through art and music reveal that music is not an accompaniment to mission. It is mission. Mary Catherine Levri, associate professor ...

In Egypt in 1918 archeologists discovered a papyrus fragment from the Third century AD. And on that scrap of ancient paper ...

BREMEN, Ga. — “The Sacred Harp” is a pre-Civil War compilation of sacred songs that uses music notes shaped like triangles, ovals, squares and diamonds, and it is getting an update. Sung in four-part ...

The Diocese of Jefferson City, Missouri, has opened a new yearlong “synodal” consultation process on sacred music after a now-rescinded decree from the bishop last fall banning certain hymns from Mass ...

Asked to describe the deep influence of Black sacred music on American culture, Braxton Shelley, a minister, musician, and musicologist at Yale, invoked the words of the 19th-century Czech composer ...

In 1964, Dean D.J. Bartlett and the Reverend John S. Yaryan invited Duke Ellington and his orchestra to present a concert to consecrate the renovated Grace Cathedral on Nob Hill in San Francisco ...

Groups of Sacred Harp singers are working together to revise their hymnal The a capella tradition uses shape-note music to sight-read songs from the hymnal's 554 options Families pass the musical ...

TRAVERSE CITY — There’s a group that recently formed here in northern Michigan dedicated to singing Catholic hymns dating back centuries. The musical history of the Catholic Church includes hymns that ...

PITTSFIELD — When Ryan LaBoy set out to program the Berkshire Concert Choir’s fall concerts this year, he began to imagine himself walking the winding path of a labyrinth. LaBoy, the choir’s music ...

For years, Arvo Pärt has been one of the most performed contemporary classical composers in the world. Calle Hesslefors/ullstein bild via Getty Images Pärt emerged from a period of personal artistic ...