Tag: religious music
“There is something about the experience of a big group of people singing together, and really singing from the bottom of their hearts, and it does something to you that lifts us out of the intellectual pursuits we do all day long,” says Maggi Dawn, dean of Yale’s Marquand Chapel. More
Generations of African slaves found a powerful way of singing through suffering in spirituals that were rooted in biblical stories and images. More
The Boston Archdiocesan Choir School has been described not as a school with a choir, but as a choir with a school. More
“The sound of boys’ voices is a very unique kind of sound, and there’s nothing like it…It can be soft and gentle…or it can be very brilliant and powerful,” says organist and choirmaster Douglas Major. More