Are Christmas Carols too Simplistic for Today's Troubles?

Russell Moore shares a story of dropping into a local bookstore and overhearing a man talk about why he hated Christmas music. Moore writes:

This guy started ...

Studies Show Different Responses to Christmas Music

This time of year, the songs of the season are everywhere: at the mall, in elevators, on TV, and in the earbuds of many personal audio devices. But recent ...

Psychologist: Workers Are Less Productive with Christmas Music Playing

It's that time of year again—the "most wonderful time of the year"—when Christmas carols ring through shopping malls, department ...

Dad Given Ticket for Singing 1990 Dance Hit "Everybody Dance Now" While Driving

There are some songs that are just so good that it's hard not to sing along when they come on in the car. That was the case for Montreal native Taoufik ...

After Hearing Loss, Music Teacher Chants the Psalms

A beautiful article in the Chicago Tribune told the story of a woman named Rachel Long who died in 2017 at the age of 97. Based on the information in ...

The Jazz Musician Who Had to Improvise with Disabled Hand

Unless you're a true jazz aficionado you've probably never heard of Horace Parlan who made news headlines in 2017 because the 86-year-old musician ...

Composer Wants to Express 'Love for Every Note'

For most Americans Arvo Pärt isn't exactly a household name. But the Estonian composer of classical and sacred music has won numerous international ...

Atheist Drawn By the Beauty of Bach's Music

In a 2015 interview, the Hungarian composer György Kurtág made a remarkable confession about his struggle to reconcile his atheism with the ...

Watch Out for That Muddled Background Noise

Have you ever been singing a popular song only to discover that you're belting out the wrong lyrics? Misunderstanding lyrics is a common mistake that ...

Cellist Plays During Shelling and Snipers

Steven Galloway's 2008 novel, The Cellist of Sarajevo, tells the following fictional story about the real cellist Vedren Smajlovic. In the novel, ...