ELY — The boys choir of Ely Cathedral has been filling the magnificent 1,000-year-old structure with music for hundreds of years. But never has the choir included an American voice. That’s about to ...

At Ely, as at many other monasteries and cathedrals, the ‘liturgical choir’ where the monks sat extended into the eastern bays of the nave. To the east was the presbytery and high altar. Beyond that ...

image: 6 3 ⁄ 4 x 3 3 ⁄ 4 in. (17.1 x 9.5 cm.) sheet: 12 3 ⁄ 4 x 10 1 ⁄ 8 in. (32.4 x 25.7 cm.) ...

Few sounds are as angelic as the voices of young boys singing liturgical music. One of England's finest examples, the Ely Cathedral Choir of Men and Boys, will perform Friday night at Church of the ...

COURTESY DAN WERNING courtesy Dan Werning Members of the Hawaii Sacred Choir, made up of adults and children, sing in both English and Latin.

The cathedral we see today at Ely is not at all as it was in the Middle Ages. Three events in particular had a massive impact on it. The first was the Reformation, in the 1530s and 1540s, when ...