“Choral music is slow food for the soul,” proclaimed contemporary American composer Nico Muhly in an effusive commentary on Andrew Gant’s history of English sacred music (New York Times, April 2). The ...

When early-music scholar Temmo Korisheli was invited to take over direction of the vocal ensemble Adelfos in 2008, the first thing he addressed was programming. He was not interested in the hodgepodge ...

Gant (Christmas Carols), lecturer at St. Peter’s College at the University of Oxford, shows readers that church music in England has always reflected larger theological, political, and social contexts ...

You might think a concert of 16th-century English church music, in Latin — with a few pieces barely tipping into the 17th century — too esoteric to attract much of a crowd. But on international tours ...

Lionel Dakers, who directed the Royal School of Church Music for 16 years, has died at age 79. He died March 10 in Salisbury, his family said. The cause of death was not announced. Dakers was a ...

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"Music is the heart and soul of this place," says Reverend Mike Trotman as he reflects on his church being used as a venue for midweek live gigs. The 19th Century St Peter's Church in Parkstone, Poole ...