The Magnificat is Mary’s song of praise in the Gospel of Luke. John Rutter’s setting is influenced by Latin music.

Conductor Nicholas McGegan has been programming evenings of Baroque music for years at the Aspen Music Festival, usually with an idea toward juxtaposing various composers from the era. This year’s ...

In the classrooms of the Magnificat Institute of Jerusalem, the music school of the Custody of the Holy Land, “every day we witness a small but significant miracle,” Franciscan Father Alberto Joan ...

Nina Shapiro from The Seattle Times Dec 20, 2025 Dec 20, 2025 0 Kent Stevenson was stumped when he was asked some 15 years ago to compose a gospel version of the Magnificat, a biblical passage set to ...

Completing 19 years of presenting early music concerts to the Calgary public, Early Music Voices’ season-ending concert featured J.S. Bach’s Magnificat. On hand for the event at Christ Church in Elbow ...

Perhaps a psychologist could help here: I find I (almost) dislike this music for (almost) liking it too much. It is melodious, rhythmical, colourful, responsive; above all, it is expert in the ...

“Magnificat,” a 12-verse biblical canticle attributed to the Virgin Mary, is about to get a new airing 2,000 years after it was first inscribed in the Gospel of St. Luke. Local composer Tucker Fuller ...

Just in time for International Women’s Day — and only a few days late for the relevant holiday of Purim — the early-music ensemble Magnificat devoted the weekend to a celebration of strong biblical ...

Every artist needs a portfolio - especially one who's hoping to move into the job market - and it was just 400 years ago that the composer Claudio Monteverdi came out with one for the record books.

The human impulse to skip to good stuff helps explain why composers through the centuries have been drawn to Song of Songs, that portion of the Bible which lingers on pomegranates and lips. Also known ...

Magnificat, a British a cappella vocal group founded in 1991, gave a splendid noontime performance at the Church of the Epiphany downtown Tuesday, the pews and rafters vibrating sympathetically to the ...

Kent Stevenson's Gospel Magnificat, a modern version of a choral work performed for hundreds of years, is a showcase for a ...