The Pope has called for a revival of the sacred music of the church's past. After folk and rock 'n' roll Masses, what will the faithful make of polyphony, asks Aengus Collins Earlier this summer a ...

Congregation Emanu-El has announced the season launch of the upcoming Cantors' Concert Series on Saturday, December 7 at 7.30 p.m., presenting the San Francisco debut ...

Editor’s note: To listen along as you read, click the links in the text. These pieces were performed for The Economist by the choir of Jesus College, Cambridge. IN 1605 Charles de Ligny, a Frenchman, ...

When Hungarian musician Miklos Both came up with the idea of going on an ethnographic expedition around Ukraine to record traditional songs, he could hardly believe the project would last more than ...

There are dozens (and frankly probably hundreds) of excellent recordings in the catalogue that revolve around two staple subjects: romantic love and religious devotion. But for their latest album, New ...

Miller Theatre at Columbia University School of the Arts continues the 2015-16 Early Music series with SONGS OF HOPE, featuring New York Polyphony, on Saturday ...

In Polyphonic Minds: Music of the Hemispheres (The MIT Press, 2017), Peter Pesic examines the shift in Western history from monophonic music — music with one melodic line — to polyphonic music, which ...

NORTHAMPTON, Mass. -- Though they’ve made a name for themselves singing music that’s hundreds of years old, the four men of New York Polyphony are unequivocably voices of their own times, not ancient ...

The four-man vocal ensemble New York Polyphony sings ancient music built for big resonant spaces. Since they can't just pop into St. Patrick's Cathedral any time they need to practice a renaissance ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. One could easily – but erroneously – conclude that singing Renaissance polyphonic music from the original part-books is an ...

It's a wet afternoon in Camden and there's a commotion going on by the canal. Twenty three Texans in brightly-coloured, biblical robes are assembled on a bridge overlooking the lock waiting to have ...