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 ...
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 ...
John Lennon wanted thousands of monks to chant on a song from The Beatles’ Revolver. He subsequently realized this was impractical but he wished the final song was closer to his original idea. Notably ...
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Hear the Long-Lost Chants of English Monks Whose Monasteries Were Dissolved by Henry VIII
A university choir has revived music found hiding in plain sight in a book once used by monks at southern England's Buckland ...
It isn't every day that Catholic monks find themselves on the pop charts. Yet that's what happened to the monks of Stift Heiligenkreuz, a 12th-century Cistercian monastery near Vienna, whose CD of ...
Sunday night, the Whitaker Center in Harrisburg will be hosting the Tibetan Monks of the Drepung Loseling Monastry. The monks, who have shared the stage with Philip Glass, Kitaro, Paul Simon, Sheryl ...
The Disciples followed the Last Supper with a hymn, and the early martyrs went singing into the arena to meet the lions; voices raised in praise and gladness have always been part of the Christian ...
"To chant, to sing, engages one's whole being," says Brother Christian Leisy of the Monastery of Christ in the Desert. The Benedictine monks who... Deep In The Desert, Monks Make Transcendent Music ...
In a file photo, Carolyn Meub stands at Weston Priory in early August in Vermont with Benedictine brothers Richard Iaquinto, Placid Gaunay and Michael Hoveling. (Credit: Cori Fugere Urban/Vermont ...
The first time I heard Tibetan throat singing, I was completely blown away. According to Britannica, Tibetan throat singing is a particular style of throat singing that usually involves chanting and ...
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