WASHINGTON-- Even the Beatles couldn't get a deal with the first record label that auditioned them. Consider the situation of liturgical music composers who have only three U.S. publishers to go to ...

I have purchased and listen often to many recordings of liturgical music: Gregorian chant, English Recusant polyphony, the great Counter-Reformation polyphonic works of Victoria, Palestrina, Gesualdo, ...

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 ...

Is filled to endless day. The Magnificat offers a two-part formula for creating equity: putting down the proud and raising the lowly. Big name church music composer David Haas is experiencing the ...

The Cathedral of Christ the Light in Oakland, California, is astonishing. From the outside, it appears as though a spaceship decided to land on the banks of Lake Merritt, while the interior reminds ...

Luke Rosen conducts a choir at Corpus Christi Catholic Church in Toledo, Ohio, sometime before the coronavirus pandemic began sweeping through the U.S. Rosen has urged creativity in the effort to ...

William Fritz’s enthusiasm is infectious. His eyes light up when he talks about, well, everything really, but especially sacred music and his time at the Composition Institute with renowned composer ...

This essay is a Cover Story selection, a weekly feature highlighting the top picks from the editors of America Media. Editors’ note: One of the recommendations of the first meeting of the Synod on ...

The Southeastern Liturgical Music Symposium will be held Aug. 19 and Aug. 20 at Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church in Atlanta. The symposium will focus on the opportunities and challenges faced ...

Angela Westhoff-Johnson, Joseph Muir and Rachael Kitchens sing during the Easter Vigil Mass April 11, 2020, at St. Mary Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Portland, Ore. Amid reports that ...