From outside the doors of Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Cathedral, the baritone voice of John Michael Boyer can be heard. Inside the church, Boyer is standing just to the right of the church’s icon ...

Paul Barnes, an American pianist and chanter, filled the Shigemi Matsumoto Recital Hall with the sounds of a piano and Greek Orthodox chant on Friday, Feb. 8. Barns presented a re-enchantment of music ...

A friend passed on to me a must-listen Fresh Air interview with Jason Hamacher, an American punk drummer who went to Syria just before the war to record ancient Sufi and Christian liturgical music.

Russian chants (harmonized), and other sacred vocal music; includes hymns for the Feast of the Smolensk Icon of the Mother of God (Hodegetria), for the Dormition of the most holy Birth-Giver of God, ...

A moment as mysterious as the sacred idea it celebrates – the crucified Christ’s decent into Hades before his resurrection – arrived Saturday morning at St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church in a ...

“Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and charm and joy to life and to everything.” —Plato With music’s transcendent power, language does ...

Syrian Culture Minister Mohammed Saleh was criticized this week after a video surfaced showing him at a historic Orthodox church with Islamic chanter Al-Mu’tasim Billah Al-Assali, who performed an ...