The Latin hymn ‘Ave Verum Corpus’ has been set by some of classical music’s best-loved composers, most famously by Mozart. ‘Ave Verum Corpus’, meaning ‘Hail true body’, is a Eucharistic hymn (holy ...

Just forty-six bars containing around three minutes of music. And yet they are capable of leaving the listener just as moved as might an entire five-day long cycle of Wagner’s The Ring. And certainly ...

The morning commute was like any other — almost. As cars flew by on the northbound 710, I hit “play” on my iPod and a melody swept over me. Rush hour melted away. “Ah-vey, ah-vey, veh-room ...

Byrd's double life, in public a member of Queen Elizabeth I's Chapel Royal in a newly Protestant England, in private a covert Catholic, directly shaped his music. Grand works such as the Great Service ...

Here are some favorites out of the huge body of music Mozart wrote for the church. The Laudate Pueri from his Dominican Vespers, K. 321 is written as a canon. Charles Bruffy conducts the Kansas City ...