Congregational singing is one of our best tools for doing that. And visualizing worship as a funnel helps me channel that singing to a unified end. The opening of the service is like the wide mouth of ...

*Although screen monitors are used these days, I remember the interaction while sharing a hymnal and singing together with the person next to me in church – pointing out each stanza on each staff to ...

What is the future of congregational singing, especially in North America over the next 10 years? How is it changing? How can and should technology play a role? These questions are of first importance ...

One of Pope Francis’ more memorable aphorisms, from a homily in 2014, is: “You’re able to shout when your team makes a goal, but you cannot sing the Lord’s praises?” I have heard parish song directors ...

B’nai Torah Congregation of Boca Raton will have both a scholar in residence talk and a husband/wife singing duo perform in concert on Jan. 6. Scholar in residence Eli Beer, founder and president of ...

Guitar-slinging Cantor Stuart Simon retires after 40 years on the pulpit of Am Yisrael Conservative Congregation. Cantor Stuart Simon has sung the prayer Adon Olam to hundreds of melodies over his ...

First Congregational Church will host jazz pianist Stephen Page for a sing-along concert on Friday, March 6, as part of “The Joy of Piano” series.

On Easter Sunday, it's a longstanding tradition for the choir at Eden Prairie United Methodist Church to lead the congregation in Handel's "Hallelujah" chorus. But the church was silent in 2020, when ...

Cantor Morris Wolk’s first high holiday service at the Plainview Jewish Center was memorable, to say the least. The Conservative synagogue was hopping with 900 members back in 1974 and, with no ...

From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! In the Jewish tradition, the cantor leads the congregation in song and prayer. For ...

A gray-suited Sjon Christopher Smith, forehead beaded with sweat, bounds across the brightly lighted platform in front of the pulpit, microphone gripped in his right hand, a gray hand towel clutched ...