As the clock edged towards midnight, large parts of Sakumono and its surrounding communities were plunged into darkness following a power outage.But the absence of electricity did little to dim the ...

He sold millions of albums with the Richard Smallwood Singers, and his songs, many influenced by classical music, were recorded by stars like Whitney Houston.

Songwriters living in ancient Egypt would never have expected the words and melodies they sung would feature on Australian ...

It was the night of Christmas. All was calm, all was bright, as the perennial hymn has it. But all was not bright in the ...

More than 60 years later, Elvis Presley’s 1957 Christmas album is still the best-selling holiday record ever made.

Hundreds of new Christmas songs are released every year, but each time December rolls around, the same small handful of classics races to the top of the charts. Will anything new ever break through?

The story behind “Little Baby in a Manger,” a new Christmas song in “Hymns — For Home and Church," began 18 years ago in South Korea. American composer Traci Law and her husband, Ryan, were living ...

'It is a strange thing to put your own name to a book, knowing that such a river has been fed by streams of makers, thinkers and collaborators...' Acclaimed poet Annemarie Ní Churreáin introduces her ...

A clay fragment no larger than a postcard sat untouched in a Baghdad storeroom for ages. Now its words sing again, thanks to artificial intelligence that stitched it to 30 other scattered fragments ...

The cuneiform tablet with the newly discovered hymn. Credit: Anmar A. Fadhil, Department of Archaeology, University of Baghdad A previously unknown hymn of praise dating to around 1000 BCE was ...

The hymns of the Qumran sect, now completely translated and accessible to the layman for the first time, give readers an authentic feeling of what the scrolls are like. They also offer a moving ...