Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. After all the early music scholarship in recent decades, it must seem that the music by a composer as prominent ...

The famed Palestrina Boy's Choir from St. Mary's Pro-Cathedral in Dublin, is performing in New York on Friday, April 10. In a concert at the iconic Carnegie Hall's Zankel Hall, the choir will present ...

Some may find sacred music composer Giovanni Pierluigi de Palestrina’s work challenging to sing but the Midwest Motet Society is up to the challenge. The Flossmoor-based chamber choir presents “Rome ...

The greatest liturgical composer who ever lived and one of the musical wonders of the ages was Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, whose lacy counterpoint was the pride of the Vatican under Pope Sixtus ...

June 22 at 8: From St. Mary’s Pro-Cathedral, in Dublin, comes the Palestrina Choir, a forty-voice boys’ group that has been singing great music in the Catholic tradition since 1903. Their program, ...

Motets Through the Centuries concert on Feb. 7. Officials describe the event as “a journey across five centuries of sacred music.” The concert explores the depth and breadth of the choral motet, from ...

Actor Aidan Gillen will be reading from a Christmas story and poem at the concert. Photo: Steve Humphreys It will be a family affair for award-winning actor Aidan Gillen when he joins the acclaimed ...

The choir is small, just 10 singers, and Cadogan Hall has a dry acoustic, at least compared to the vast basilicas of Northern Italy, so these were intimate readings. The broadly chronological survey ...