INTRODUCING ZOLA is this month’s talk on the French writer Emile Zola (1840-1902) at Winchelsea Literary Society. Local resident David Page will be speaking on “Emile Zola: Dissecting the French ...

The song "Amazing Grace" was first performed on New Year's Day, 1773, and has gone through many changes over the years.

Just like Mattea’s broad range of styles, concertgoers will hear music from Celtic to Old English to hymns to rhythm-and-blues—a reflection of the intentionality with which she selects songs.

When it comes to Christmas hymns and carols, I’m mostly an old-school purist. I favor traditional Christmas music, with one ...

Possibly to ensure his own admission this year, he had gone to the trouble of creating a new, old-style hymn for the service ... it was in the less strident English version, by the American ...

The hymns are believed to date back to around ... Caroling appears to have sprung from an Old Norse word that turned into an old English word, which became Wassail, a word meaning roughly ...

Local lad Ernie Curtis was one of the heroes of ’27. He won the FA Cup, Welsh Cup, Charity Shield and was capped by Wales by ...

The ubiquity of these popular festive tunes makes it easy to forget that some of our favorite modern-day Christmas songs are centuries old.

The fighting stopped and soon a German soldier stood to sing Martin Luther’s hymn, “From Heaven to Earth I Come ... Dwight translated the song to English giving us a hauntingly beautiful text that has ...

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is said to be reflecting on his future over the holidays after the resignation of his top ...

The festive tune, heard globally, was penned by English hymn writer and translator John ... looking out on a cold day, saw an old man gathering winter fuel, and he directed his page to bring ...

Attendees sang, prayed and took Communion for the final time in their church. Kenyon delivered his last sermon there, until ...