At this year’s Annual Meeting in January, the wardens and I proposed that we embark on a year of vocational discernment together as a...

"We have realized that we are on the same boat, all of us fragile and disoriented, but at the same time, important and needed, all of us...

Making a Joyful Noise – Matthew Carey Growing as a Musician and a Person Singing in St. Elisabeth’s Choir Singing with St. Elisabeth’s...

So often, I think music becomes a performative ministry in the church. Churches identify individuals with talent or prior training and...

In 1999, Daniel Barenboim (formerly of the Chicago Symphony) set out to prove the power of music by forming the West-Eastern Divan...

In the orchestra lounge at the Chicago Lyric Opera, there is a My Fair Lady-themed poster with the words: “The raise in pay stays mainly...