NORWALK -- Parishioners of St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church assembled in a courtyard Sunday morning to witness the blessing of palm fronds by a priest in a traditional Latin-language rite, accompanied ...

The Gregorian chant, best known as the solemn music sung by robed monks of old, is enjoying a 21st-century revival — and the Twin Cities are at the heart of it this week. Experts and students of the ...

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 ...

SOLESMES, France -- One of the tasks of Roger Server as mayor of this quaint village is to console misguided tourists who want to hear the monks in its 11th-century monastery singing in Gregorian ...

LITTLE ROCK — Some call them the “holy tones.” Others refer to these distinctive sounds by their proper name: The Solfeggio frequencies. But whatever you call the strains of ancient Gregorian chants ...

A new Gregorian chant CD by a group of Benedictine monks in Norcia, Italy, debuted at No. 1 on Billboard's classical music chart last week. The album, "Benedicta," was also the top overall seller at ...

Somewhere, I told myself, amid shelves of long-ignored LPs, I had a recording of Gregorian chants. But where? After much foraging, the album eventually turned up, and, remarkably, my ancient turntable ...

On a recent Friday afternoon, amid the bustle of midtown Anchorage traffic, the sounds of Old World liturgical chant — deep baritones mixing with high alto voices — floated from a tiny chapel. The ...

An order of cloistered Benedictine nuns in France has signed a deal with Universal Music to produce an album of Gregorian chant. The abbess said that after time in prayer the nuns decided the effort ...

This past spring, four members of the American military forces stationed in Germany awakened before dawn and began a 10-hour journey that would take them to a remote rural location. Upon their arrival ...