Sacra/Profana delivered on its name Sunday afternoon in a concert featuring both an Anglican mass for the dead and a secular cantata that might be performed at any memorial service. Sacra/Profana’s ...

Herbert Howells' "Requiem," a deeply personal piece written in a time of grief and then filed away for 40 years, was the compelling centerpiece of the Choral Arts Ensemble's concerts last weekend in ...

Eastside Sings! will present “Summer Sing-Along 2010,” featuring a different choral masterwork every Tuesday evening in July. This summer’s lineup is: Mozart Requiem, Howells Requiem, Bach Magnificat, ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The area’s large, well-known classical music presenters tend to stick to familiar, mainstream works because they must generate robust enough ticket sales to ...

The Cathedral of St. John the Baptist and its luminous acoustics were the perfect environment for the Westminster Choir’s presentation of compositions by three British composers. “Music of the spheres ...

David Hoose, music director of the Cantata Singers, noticed something unusual when he began to study the Requiem by Herbert Howells, a British composer known chiefly for liturgical music. He became ...

Centerpiece of the afternoon is Adolphus Hailstork’s The World Called, inspired by Rita Dove’s poem “Testimonial,” a work that blends African, American, and European traditions and reflects ...

The Requiem Mass has stimulated composers as varied as Mozart, Gabriel Faure and the modern English composer Herbert Howells. And now, a brand-new work inspired by the Requiem's traditional form will ...

We all have idols we dream of meeting. One of mine was Herbert Howells. Unless you're a church musician, or have sung in a pretty good choir, that name, of a British composer who lived from 1892 to ...

The All Souls’ Day Requiem Mass at St. Dominic’s will feature beautiful music from the St. Dominic’s Solemn Mass Choir, San Francisco Choral Artists, and the Festival Orchestra to celebrate and pray ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The Dessoff Choirs - led by Music Director Malcolm J. Merriweather - has revealed ...