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 ...

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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 ...

Making music together for more than 30 years the Estonian performance group Horticus Musicus Latin for Music Garden has distinguished itself as the oldest continuously working ensemble in Eastern ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. IN their black robes and red cinctures, members of the St Laurence Gregorian Schola look like they have stepped from the set of the Sean ...

You wouldn’t expect this to be a best-selling musical group. The name, Anonymous 4, tells nothing about the sort of ensemble it is or the music it performs. And its specialty is medieval vocal music – ...

Medieval chant books and the parchment they were made of were designed to last a long time — so long, that pages of them can outlast the book itself. Across medieval Europe, monks and nuns and clergy ...

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. Medieval Easter You can hear Gregorian chant at two churches in the ...

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