Saxophonist Andy Tecson takes the recurring connections between jazz and church music to a new direction. As a composer and bandleader, Tecson combines the melodies of traditional Lutheran hymns with ...

Central Lutheran Church is having its second annual Hymn Festival Nov. 16 with brass, pipe organ, strings, percussion and choirs. The festival honors the love of hymn singing by the late Janice Newell ...

Jonathan Busarow thought he would sit with his family and enjoy the concert in honor of his grandfather. Instead, the 25-year-old, who had just finished his master's degree in choral conducting from ...

The fat red Service Book and Hymnal used by the Lutheran Church in America includes ten hymns with words or music by Martin Luther—and not one of them is among the top ten favorites of Lutherans today ...

Leland Sateren, a renowned composer and choral conductor whose music can be found in the hymnals of Lutheran churches throughout the nation, died Saturday in Minneapolis. He was 94. He died of natural ...

The First Lutheran Church will have special music at both the 9 a.m. contemporary worship service and the 11 a.m. traditional worship service on Easter Sunday, April 9. The 9 a.m. service will feature ...

UPPER MERION – The voices of more than 50 singers will join together on Sunday, Aug. 4, at 4 p.m. to “Sing of Wondrous Love.” Wondrous love was chosen as the unifying theme of The Good Shepherd ...

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Joachimsthal is a town in Bohemia that was founded on the eve of the Reformation. Silver was mined there and turned into “the standard silver coin of sixteenth century Germany, the Joachimsthaler or ...

John Carl Ylvisaker was a rarity: A widely traveled musician rooted in Minnesota, and a self-effacing man whose music was sung by thousands across the world. Ylvisaker, one of the most popular ...

Millersville University freshman Nanga Lin recently helped the choir at Lancaster’s Holy Trinity Lutheran Church learn a new hymn in Chinese, which the choir will sing in a worship service at 10 a.m.

Today we call it "plagiarism," but back in the heyday of baroque music, in the late 17th to early 18th centuries, reworking another composer's music — or your own — was considered an indication of ...