A while ago, I was visiting with some friends and in the background a radio was playing country music. I made an off-hand comment there would be no country music if it were not for the Reformation.

Music and religion have been indelibly linked for centuries, and when the Protestant Reformation of 1517 caused members of the Catholic Church to create their own separate denominations, naturally the ...

Add two more dates — Oct. 29 and Oct. 30 — to your arts calendar. The events not only provide important history lessons but celebrate historic music. Observance of the 500th anniversary of the ...

Five hundred years ago in 1517, Martin Luther published his "Ninety-five Theses," launching the Protestant Reformation. A break from the Catholic Church, the Reformation came to have profound ...

Last week a great flood of carefully prepared talk about such composers as Beethoven, Tchaikowsky, Dvorak, Strauss, Wagner, Brahms, was heard all over the country in felt-carpeted apartments and ...

I volunteer as an usher for the Summerville Orchestra. At the Sat., April 1 concert, “The Reformation,” Music Director Wojciech Milewski premiered a local work, “Psalm 13,” by composer Christopher ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Conrad Tao had his debut with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra when he was 18, and the Post-Dispatch’s classical music critic ...