When I asked my dad what songs he sang in church during the war, he explained that with his native Netherlands under Nazi occupation, worshipers couldn’t sing anything that smacked of ...

Over the centuries, perhaps no volume of poetry has claimed the devotion of so many people across the Abrahamic religions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, and also inspired the creation of artistic ...

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'Psalms are at the heart of our choir’s musical identity. They inform everything else we perform – technically, musically and emotionally'. So writes Andrew Nethsingha, Director of Music at St John’s ...

One of my favorite sources of laughter is the 1975 film “Monty Python and the Holy Grail.” Briefly put, the British comedy is based on the story of King Arthur and his quest for the Holy Grail, the ...

This Saturday, Feb. 11, many Jews will celebrate Shabbat Shirah, the Sabbath of Singing, which commemorates one of the most vivid musical performances in the Hebrew Bible: the songs sung by Moses and ...

CRAIG Armstrong first heard Gaelic psalm singing in church when he was just nine or 10. Although he grew up in the east end of Glasgow, his mum was originally from Balintore in Ross-shire, and on ...