Many, or perhaps most, readers of Gramophone would be surprised to find themselves buying a record of hymns, and I can't claim to have been overjoyed on finding that this one had been sent to me for ...

For centuries the world of classical music has been a somewhat one-sided story, with some brilliant music written by Black composers being wrongly neglected ... Other musical influences include ...

"The hymns and composers listed on the Prohibited Hymns list are absolutely forbidden from being used in the Diocese of Jefferson City," McKnight said in the decree. "Pastors, Administrators ...

In his original decree, dated Oct. 24, Bishop W. Shawn McKnight of the Diocese of Jefferson City listed a dozen commonly used ...

In addition to laying out the banned hymns and composers, the decree lays out four Mass settings approved for use in the diocese and with which every parish should “become familiar,” though ...

It’s ironic that a composer who lived virtually his whole ... Martha Graham had all kinds of ideas for the ballet, such as incorporating a hymn tune. Copland brought a modest and then virtually ...

Choose your all-time number one from the 100 hymns and worship songs that have been most featured on Songs of Praise over the last 5 years. Here Simon Lole, Songs of Praise conductor, composer ...

Two newly discovered hymns written by a celebrated British composer have been sung for the "first time in living memory". Works by Sir Edward Bairstow were found by chance in Blackburn Central ...

Such bans have already been in place in a number of U.S. dioceses, with allegations against all three composers emerging during the past several years. Also on the list are 12 specific hymns that ...

His name is Charles Ives, and after he died in 1954, his reputation slowly grew as America’s first truly original composer ... frenzy by Denk and Jackiw, the hymn “Come thou Fount of Every ...

What are the lyrics to the hymn, ‘The day thou gavest, Lord, is ended’?