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Hear the Long-Lost Chants of English Monks Whose Monasteries Were Dissolved by Henry VIII
A university choir has revived music found hiding in plain sight in a book once used by monks at southern England's Buckland ...
He's Father Arnold D’Achille, a Fort Myers resident and Benedictine monk turned Catholic priest. At 92 years old, he’ll say ...
HEILIGENKREUZ, AUSTRIA — Working to reach No. 1 on the charts? Try praying. That’s how the monks of Heiligenkreuz Abbey found fame. Their compilation of Gregorian chants, a form of sung prayer, has ...
HEILIGENKREUZ, Austria — Working to reach No. 1 on the charts? Try praying. That's how the monks of Heiligenkreuz Abbey found fame. Their compilation of Gregorian chants, a form of sung prayer, has ...
A new Gregorian chant CD by a group of Benedictine monks in Norcia, Italy, debuted at No. 1 on Billboard's classical music chart last week. The album, "Benedicta," was also the top overall seller at ...
The Benedictine Monks of Norcia spend their lives in prayer and labor – "ora et labora" – chanting the psalms and producing crafts to support themselves. This week, they also released an album meant ...
The Benedictine Monks of Clear Creek Abbey in Oklahoma have teamed up with De Montfort Music and Sophia Music Group to release a new album of Advent melodies that takes advantage of Apple’s new ...
Eastern culture often seems far removed from our mostly Western sensibilities. Epistemologically speaking, when the most New Worlders hear the word "chant" in relation to music, we immediately think ...
(RNS) If you loved the music of the Benedictine monks of Norcia in Italy -- and the Billboard charts say millions do -- then you'll love their beer, now available for purchase in the U.S. (RNS) The ...
PILTON (Reuters) - A farm in rural England turned into a mini tent city on Thursday as fans flocked to Glastonbury, the world's largest open-air music festival, where megastars like the Rolling Stones ...
Hong Dirienzo clasped her hands together and knelt with her face to the wooden floor of the Sawdust Art & Craft Festival’s Healy House as the guttural chanting of seven Tibetan monks rose around her, ...
John Lennon wanted thousands of monks to chant on a song from The Beatles’ Revolver. He subsequently realized this was impractical but he wished the final song was closer to his original idea. Notably ...
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