Three remarkable new albums feature choral music spanning more than a millennium, including works by the world's earliest known female composer. From what is known, it seems Kassianí had an ...

From my boyhood, I loved singing. Singing filled our home and many a long drive. We were an ensemble: Mom and Dad and us eight children. At church, the congregation sang out hymns in four-part harmony ...

Inspired by a cappella Sacred Harp singing, the trumpeter also pays tribute to Carla Bley and Mary Lou Williams in this intensely personal trio set Trumpeter Dave Douglas emerged in the 1980s with ...

When I was in seminary, my theology professor started each class with our singing a hymn together, a cappella. He also gave us a bit of instruction in hymnology before we began our discussion of ...