Sacred music has an objective greatness and essential purpose that needs to be rediscovered: that of leading souls to the divine, to heaven and to holiness, says the co-author of a new book interview ...

STEUBENVILLE, OH (WTRF) – Franciscan University of Steubenville will host the Sacred Music Leadership Summit on Oct. 16-17. The summit is for priest, parish staff, music directors, principals, parish ...

The project’s founder and some recent participants discuss how ‘sacred music disposes our hearts and souls to encounter Christ in the sacred liturgy.’ Peter Carter directs a schola at Princeton ...

JUDY VALENTE, correspondent: The musical tastes of most twenty-somethings trend along these lines: Beyonce, Maroon 5, and hip hop artist Mark Ronson. But for 28-year-old tenor Gene Stenger there are ...

Ater a hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the New Orleans Sacred Music Festival is making a highly anticipated return for its eighth year. This free, day-long event celebrates spiritual traditions ...

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 ...

Ten years ago, after the Gulf War, two Islamic scholars decided to start an interfaith music festival in Morocco to promote peace. The Fes Festival of World Sacred Music is now a celebrated ...

Wade in the Water is a 26-part series, originally released in 1994, that celebrates African American sacred music and traditions.. Listen to the episodes on NPR.org and NPR One. In 1994, when Wade in ...

Thomas Tallis defied the authorities and the limits of music itself to create the 40-part motet Spem in alium. Allegri's Miserere was so precious that it was kept under lock and key. From the first ...

Editor’s note: To listen along as you read, click the links in the text. These pieces were performed for The Economist by the choir of Jesus College, Cambridge. IN 1605 Charles de Ligny, a Frenchman, ...

The first printed music in the United States appeared in 1690, and the AMRC's holdings of published and manuscript American sacred music begin very shortly after. Our roughly two thousand tune books ...