As we approach the holiday season of an annus horribilis, it can be comforting to remind ourselves that centuries ago we humans created ineffably beautiful and lasting works of art to celebrate our ...

Ever heard of Tomás Luis de Victoria? I have — and how. When I was a college student in the 1960s, the head of the music department at the school I attended wrote his Ph.D. thesis on Victoria, a ...

Imagine yourself, for a moment, in a Spanish cathedral or royal chapel sometime in the late 1500s. Hardly a surface is innocent of elaborate carving or frescoes. The air is thick with incense smoke.

Cleveland is about to acquire Quire Cleveland, a professional choral ensemble devoted largely to a cappella works from the late medieval, Renaissance and Baroque eras. The group's music director will ...

The Taylor Music Group’s 2015-16 season continues with a choral concert to explore medieval and modern interpretations of the ‘Miserere’ The Taylor Festival Choir (TFC), Charleston’s renowned ...

Most lovers of baroque and Renaissance choral music likely know the name Claudio Monteverdi, a celebrated composer. But there was another composer at the time, equally as good, but much less known, ...

The writings and music of Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179) take a contemporary choral turn when conductor-composer Eric Banks leads the Esoterics through “Sybilla: The Complete Hildegard Motets of ...

Bringing music with a message, the Bethel University Renaissance Choir will return to Jefferson City this weekend. The choir, which is based at the university in McKenzie, Tennessee, will perform a ...

Jeffry Blake Johnson will soon take a final bow. His last performances as artistic director for the Renaissance City Choir are 4 p.m. June 1-2 at East Liberty Presbyterian Church’s Courtyard. He’s ...

When the Friends of Chamber Music presents a holiday concert, you know “Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer” is not going to be on the program. This year the Friends is presenting a Kansas City ...