A campaign is underway to protect England’s choral music tradition, which has thrived for nearly 500 years. Enthusiasts are ...

As traditional English choral music faces modern challenges, advocates seek government recognition to preserve its rich ...

Then Brown did a bit of transforming of his own. "You get known for certain things," he said. "I always had the philosophy of not shoe-horning singers in a particular choral sound. If you wanted to ...

Efforts are underway to preserve the English choral tradition, particularly Choral Evensong, which faces modern challenges ...

In “The Choral,” Ralph Fiennes plays Dr. Henry Guthrie, a talented and demanding musician hired by a small Yorkshire town’s amateur choral society when they lose their chorusmaster to World War I.

"In this four-part series on Q2, we explore a few centuries of (mainly) English choral music, ignoring, as the genre itself suggests, the better part of the 18th and 19th centuries. This is by no ...

Henry Guthrie, played by Ralph Fiennes, is uncompromising in his pursuit of musical excellence as he overhauls a struggling northern English choir during World War I in The Choral. The year is 1916.

‘When the Sabbath had past,” the baritone intones; as Mark’s gospel continues — and the three Marys arrive at Jesus’s tomb on Easter morning — the other four voices bloom into a slow swirl of ...

The year is 1916. The fictional northern England town of Ramsden offers such a bucolic setting in The Choral, with lush hills, singing birds and polite humor exchanged between locals that one could ...