Sacred music — brand new, fairly new, old, and old newly arranged — opened the Milwaukee Choral Artists season Friday at the First Unitarian Society. Sharon Hansen led her 19 singers and four guest instrumentalists through 22...
The Festival of Music and Sacred Art in Rome aims at presenting the Foundations institutional activities which are the restoration of precious works of religious art housed in the patriarchal Roman basilicas where the concerts...
Performers too young to have known Bernstein see his music afresh. Even deceased, he looms too large for one institution to celebrate, so Carnegie Hall, the New York Philharmonic, City Center, and others have teamed up for an...
Joe Negri of "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood." The music will be an hour-long performance of "Mass of Hope: The Mass in the Jazz Idiom," which Mr. Negri wrote years ago and continued to develop into an entire performance of...
By Susan Josephs, the Los Angeles Times, September 12, 2008 Almost half of the 41 events will feature dance or informal movement Los Angeles, USA -- And that's what they hope to convey when they perform as part of this...
It sometimes happens that a certain group of people will become associated with a certain ability or skill. This is true in the case of the Ewe, a group of people who live in Togo, Benin and the southeast corner of Ghana....
SPIRITUAL TRADITION EXPLORED IN NEW DOCUMENTARY AND SOUNDTRACK Awake, My Soul: The Story of the Sacred Harp is the first feature documentary about Sacred Harp singing, a haunting form of a cappella, shape note hymn singing...
A new album released on Monday has turned the spotlight on young Turkish rock singer Umut Zen after he included two Islamic hymns transformed into rock tunes on the album. Triggering debate even before the release of the...
By Carmela Mercuri Music has power. In the ancient worlds of China, India, Egypt, Sumer and Greece before the Common Era, it was called Music which governed the heavenly bodies, it was called Music which brought creation into...
Sacred Music in a Sacred Space presents Bernstein's exhilarating "Chichester Psalms" and Beethoven's epic "Ninth Symphony." With soloists soprano Susanna Phillips, mezzo-soprano Jane Gilbert, tenor Bryan Griffin, bass Matt...