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Members of Gloucester Cathedral Choir have scaled the building's tower to mark Ascension Day. It is an annual tradition to mark the 40th day after Easter. The Choir of Gloucester Cathedral climbed all ...

From October, the Shillong Chamber Choir (SCC) has been on a virtual hunt of sorts. The attempt to record a hymn in ancient Aramaic — the now-dead language believed to have been spoken by Christ ...

It's a song with a moniker — the "Black national anthem" — that stirs emotions throughout the U.S. But few people know that "Lift Every Voice and Sing," a hymn written in 1900 by James Weldon Johnson, ...

A school choir on the Isle of Man has recorded a new song to mark King Charles III's Coronation. King William's College (KWC) invited singers to join them to sing a new hymn as part of a Royal School ...

The NFL choral rendition of the so-called 'black national anthem' at the 2025 Draft had fans seething. A Milwaukee-based choir, the James Weldon Johnson Foundation's 'National Hymn Choir', performed ...

A previously unknown Beethoven arrangement for an ancient hymn has been uncovered after almost 200 years. The passage was written in a sketchbook but had previously been regarded as an exercise or a ...

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"Lift Every Voice and Sing," often called the "Black national anthem," was performed at the 2025 NFL Draft in Green Bay. The song, written by James Weldon Johnson to honor Abraham Lincoln, has been ...