If you ever walked the halls of the former Benedictine Monastery when the sisters were singing sacred choir music or sat in the grand chapel when the choir was performing, you could hear the soaring, ...

Inspiration can come from unlikely places. For composer Robert Kyr, the silence of a desert monastery is key to the radiant music on his new disc of recent choral works performed by the vocal ensemble ...

Move over, you monks in Spain who surprised the world with an international best-selling album of Gregorian chant. The Congregation of the Passion, a Roman Catholic religious order, has high hopes of ...

CARBONDALE — Kathryn Jeffrey has been a longtime fan of Taizé music, the kind of music that was developed at an ecumenical monastery in a city in France, from which it derives its name. Then she ...

The eight-word subtitle just about sums it up. Cline and his fellows don't take the often too reverential repertory approach with Hill's music, and instead offer up a programme that's as stimulating ...

About four months ago, the Monastère du Bon-Pasteur, a monastery in Montreal that dates back two centuries, burned for nearly two days. Along with the history, art and the heritage building itself, ...

In his liner notes, Nels Cline claims that New Monastery is not a tribute record to iconic pianist Andrew Hill, but merely one view of the rich potential found in his multifaceted compositions. The ...