NEW HAVEN ---- For some, it's incomprehensible and unreachable, but for others, it's as close as one can get on this Earth to the Heavenly Father. It's the traditional Latin High Mass, in which the ...

Mary Berry was a musician who, throughout a long and varied professional life, enriched the world of sacred music in a wide variety of ways. Lecturer, writer, performer, broadcaster, teacher, scholar ...

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 ...

Even centuries after voices first soared in the stone-walled chambers of churches and monasteries, the music of medieval monks' chants has the power to send chills through the body of listeners. Now ...

Since the spring of 2019, the nuns of the Benedictine Abbey of Notre-Dame de Jouques in French Provence have been recording about six hours of music daily for the smartphone’s Neumz application.

A medieval style of music has been enjoying great popularity for three decades now: the Gregorian chant. But the church musicians who make can't seem to stir up enthusiasm for contemporary pop music.