GREGORIAN CHANT; Qui habitavit protectionemen Altissimi, sub umbra Omnipotentis commorabitur.... (He who dwells in the shelter of the most high, and dwells under the shadow of the Omnipotent one) ...

Since 1183, seven times a day starting at 5:15 a.m., the monks at Austria’s monastery of Heiligenkreuz have been singing Gregorian chant, in unison and in Latin. They recorded this disc, they write, ...

The 17 members of this Viennese monastery choir are the latest conduit to the meditative pleasures of Gregorian Chant, or plainsong – unaccompanied singing of a single melodic line where the words are ...

Host Andrea Seabrook quotes American novelist Willa Cather: "Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers." The latest sensation on the world's pop ...

“Music for Paradise” was released in England on May 19, few people expected an overnight sensation. Tenth-century Gregorian chant may have its admirers, but it’s not exactly the latest thing to hit ...

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 ...

BBC news recently reported that a group of Cistercian monks will join rank with Eminem and Amy Winehouse under the Universal Music record label. Recently, the label placed advertisements in magazines ...

The monks of Heiligenkreuz Abbey in Austria sing ancient Gregorian chants in their 12th-century church — and then post them to YouTube. Their technological savvy landed them a record deal, and now ...

Stift Heiligenkreuz (in the Vienna woods) is Europe's largest continually inhabited Cistercian monastery. And the good life being led by the monks there involves some fairly radical lifestyle ...

A New York quartet is to perform a form ofmedieval chant in Halifax this weekend based on a rare manuscript from the 1500s or earlier. High-born nuns from two different orders are shown in the ...