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Reverend Jonathan Arnold, dean of divinity at Magdalen College, Oxford, has written about the “seeming paradox that, in today’s so-called secular society, sacred choral music is as powerful, ...

Music has a unique power to transcend time, culture, and language — and no one understands that better than the composers who shaped the art form over the past thousand years. From the soaring sacred ...