The song’s lyrics, by the way, are completely made up—“invented language,” Jenkins says.

Please join us in prayers for the many victims of the Texas floods—the children that lost their happy lives, the families that were torn apart, those that are injured, those that are bereft.

Let us honor the many heroes of liberty of the human enterprise and sing for all the lands of the free.

“If I was walking in the forest and randomly walked into Cosmo performing to nobody in particular, I would not question it at all.”

A highlight was getting to meet one of the three organists who, during the Mormon services and concerts, play the enormous Salt Lake Tabernacle organ.

Dutch composer Simeon ten Holt described his work as being structured like the genetic code…

“Come, O Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful and ignite in them the fire of your love.”

Electrifying, transcendent, mathematically complex, and yet naturally organic and majestic. It is not by accident the most famous fugue by any composer ever.

Last week’s Eurovision Song Contest produced a winner that is actually worthy of mention on our Music of the Week.

“I have always written songs because I had a question. And good questions can be asked more than once.”

What most audiences do not know is that in 1967, almost 30 years after writing the Adagio as the second movement of his String Quartet, Barber adapted the score for voices with words from the Christian liturgy called the Agnus Dei.

All animals love music. And with the special resonance that Plumes seems to carry in his voice, the most beautiful conversations become possible.

This week’s music is one of Catherine’s all-time favorite songs. Curtis Mayfield was one of the greatest American performing artists of his generation. Catherine remembers how his music “inspired us to understand and love one another—it called us to the sweetness of soul.”

It is the day of Christ’s suffering and crucifixion, the ultimate sacrifice of someone completely pure and innocent, a day that constitutes a deafening cessation, an earth-shaking hiatus in the course of historical time.

What is so interesting about Haydn’s Trumpet Concerto in E-flat major is that it is the first composition for a trumpet that could play the full chromatic scale.

It was Eric Clapton’s 80th birthday last week, which is a great reason to bring him to our Music of the Week.

Let’s have another one of those wonderfully simple, soul-filled songs that carry a magic that will unnoticeably uplift the heart.

For Music of the Week, we are listening to the opening theme song, “Forgiveness,” of a Danish TV crime series, The Eagle: A Crime Odyssey. The song was written by acclaimed Danish film composer and Emmy Award winner Jacob Groth. Groth has composed the music score for over 30 movies, among them the famous trilogy, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, based upon the bestselling crime novels by legendary Swedish writer Stieg Larsson.

We are as much dismayed as Solari Report ally Dr. Joseph Farrell at the sad news that the three-story Macy’s in Philadelphia’s famous Wanamaker building (originally the Wanamaker Department Store) will close in March 2025.

Not the winner, but nominated for Best Music at this year’s Academy Awards, “Like a Bird” is a beautiful song about the inner pain and desire to be reborn a better human being that is expressed so profoundly in the movie Sing Sing.

Discover the German lady quartet from Hamburg, Salut Salon, that has been entertaining audiences worldwide with a mix of classical music slapstick and a firework of virtuosic strings.

Like few other pieces, “Le Rappel des Oiseaux” struck a nerve in French Baroque music history. Everything that developed later through Debussy, Ravel, or Messiaen was forecast in these few phenomenal minutes of sound.

Appropriate for today’s Valentine Day, this awesome ballad about life, loss, and enduring love by America’s Got Talent finalist Mitch Rossell is based on a true story.

This week’s music is a thoughtful song by American rock music singer-songwriter Jackson Browne, born in Germany at the U.S. Army garrison in Heidelberg.

The exceptional flutist Robert Stallman (1946-2019) is our choice for Music of the Week. Stallman was one of the outstanding classical flute players of our time, as well as a prolific music editor and teacher.

This is what students of the Edward Said National Conservatory of Music in Palestine sang to their kin and human brothers and sisters in Gaza this Christmas.

Tchaikovsky wrote the Ouverture solennelle “1812” for the opening of the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, one of the most impressive Russian Orthodox churches in Moscow.

Jack DesBois is a subscriber, and we love his music!

German: The Frauenkirche in Dresden. The dome of the after reconstruction shows paintings.

We are opening the new year with a grand piece from the reopening concert of the Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris under star conductor Gustavo Dudamel.

Some say that the music of Händel’s Messiah helped to revive interest in Christmas.

There are countless versions of “Oh Holy Night”—originally composed in 1843 by Adolphe Adam with French lyrics by Placide Cappeau—but few are sung as a duet, and perhaps none with two key changes.

The very early Christians who witnessed Christ’s ascension believed that He would return soon—yes, within their lifetime. “Maranatha” is an Aramaic exclamation that expresses this expectation of Christ’s imminent reappearance.

In his 2009 live performance of A Winter’s Night at Durham Cathedral, Sting includes a unique version of an old English begging song that originated in the tradition of baking “soul cakes” for the dead.

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It is Thanksgiving week in the United States, so we are publishing our Music of the Week early to bring you a song of gratitude through the beautiful tunes of five-time, Grammy-Award-winning country singer and songwriter Mary Chapin Carpenter.

Since medieval times and to this day, the mysterious “Song of the Sibyl” has been sung in churches of Catalonia and the Languedoc along the western Mediterranean.