Pope Francis has encouraged the Church to make sure that liturgical music fulfills its purpose. As he told participants in an international conference on sacred music March 4, church music should ...

NORTHAMPTON, Mass. -- Though they’ve made a name for themselves singing music that’s hundreds of years old, the four men of New York Polyphony are unequivocably voices of their own times, not ancient ...

William Mahrt, a towering figure in sacred music, left a legacy of preserving the Church’s traditional liturgical songs. Noted sacred music scholar William “Bill” Mahrt died Jan. 1 at the age of 85.

A concert of Renaissance Christmas music might seem like an odd place for a world premiere, but a new composition by Nico Muhly found a way to harmonize with the polyphony of Palestrina, Byrd, and ...

On Blue Heron’s recent performance of English polyphony from the Peterhouse Partbooks. For their “Lost Music of Canterbury” concert, the thirteen members of the Blue Heron choir divided into five ...

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, ...

Pope Francis greets choir members during his general audience in St. Peter’s Square in a file photo. (Credit: Paul Haring/CNS.) Listen Is contemporary Catholic church music “mediocre, superficial and ...

The Glee Club and Choral Society have just issued a 12-inch record of Sixteenth Century music, mostly Palestrina, with selections of Byrd, Lassus, and Amerio (Cambridge, CRS405). Some of this is a ...