A friend passed on to me a must-listen Fresh Air interview with Jason Hamacher, an American punk drummer who went to Syria just before the war to record ancient Sufi and Christian liturgical music.

BOB ABERNETHY, anchor: This weekend of Easter Sunday (April 12) for Western Christians we have a profile coming up of an inspiring Christian musician. We also have a “Belief and Practice” segment on ...

The Beatles sang it, the Benedictine monks took it to the best-sellers’ list. Hey Jude and the Gregorian chants were literally refreshing music to the ears when they first appeared. But for the first ...

Russian chants (harmonized), and other sacred vocal music; includes hymns for the Feast of the Smolensk Icon of the Mother of God (Hodegetria), for the Dormition of the most holy Birth-Giver of God, ...

A moment as mysterious as the sacred idea it celebrates – the crucified Christ’s decent into Hades before his resurrection – arrived Saturday morning at St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church in a ...

“Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and charm and joy to life and to everything.” —Plato With music’s transcendent power, language does ...

(The) Hymn of the Cherubim No. 7 Dmitry Stepanovich Bortnyansky, Composer Paul Hillier, Conductor Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir Sacred Concertos, Movements: No. 24, I will lift up mine eyes unto ...