In his letter to Cardinal Joseph Höffner for the Seventh International Congress of Sacred Music, John Paul II praised the unifying power of Gregorian chant within Catholic liturgy because of its ...
What ultimately carries the performance is the strength of the ensemble and the clarity of the arrangements, which find a ...
We’re all familiar with R&B boy bands, teen dream boy bands and K-pop boy bands. But what about a medieval boy band? While taking a meditative stroll through the royal monastery of San Lorenzo de El ...
Gregorian chant has persisted for more than a thousand years, but some fear the haunting melodies are in danger of fading away. That is, unless Stanford Professor William Mahrt has a voice in the ...
Edward Lally has loved traditional liturgical music ever since he attended Quigley Preparatory Seminary in Chicago in the 1960s. He did not continue on to the priesthood, but his passion for early ...
An order of cloistered Benedictine nuns in France has signed a deal with Universal Music to produce an album of Gregorian chant. The abbess said that after time in prayer the nuns decided the effort ...
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, ...
Members of the choir sing Gregorian chant during Mass Oct. 8 at St. John the Beloved Church in McLean, Virginia. Gregorian chant is the singing of the liturgy and its texts are almost entirely ...
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