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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. When Conor Whalen first picked up a trumpet in middle school, he never imagined that one day he ...