Vision: From the Life of Hildegard von Bingen, Margarethe von Trotta, Barbara Sukowa, Heino Ferch, Hannah Herzsprung, Alexander Held, Lena Stolze, Sunnyi Melles MORE IN THE ARCHIVES TODAY'S EVENTS ...

It's a dizzying haze of Baroque elegance dressed in trippy effects. The new album Electric Fields finds inspiration in the music of the 12 century abbess and composer Hildegard von Bingen.

Hildegard was a visionary poet, scientist, diplomat and composer. Her music, which continues to attract followers, is over 900 years old, but Hannigan and company view it through a singular 21st ...

Along with her musical partners — veteran pianists Katia and Marielle Labèque and electronics wiz and composer David Chalmin — Hannigan has fallen under the spell of the 12th century German abbess ...

Hildegard of Bingen, a 12th-century abbess and mystic, wrote nearly 80 songs and sang them too, despite claiming never to have received formal instruction in music or composition—or, for that ...

The Hildegard Haus also is dedicated as a shrine to St. Hildegard of Bingen, a 12th-century German Benedictine nun and mystic.

For about three decades, they have researched and recreated sacred music, ranging from the melismatic musical pieces of 11 th century Benedictine abbess-composer Hildegard of Bingen and Gregorian ...