“Performing makes me feel vividly alive.”

Last year, 'America' published “An (unconventional) Advent Playlist.” This is my (much more conventional) Advent playlist.

In a new exhibit, we are treated to a kind of shrine to the band’s origins.

On Christmas Eve 1818, in the church of St. Nicholas in Oberndorf near Salzburg, “Stille Nacht” (“Silent Night”) was sung for the first time. Today, the carol has been translated into some 300 languages.

Rasha Nahas: “The story I bring with me being a Palestinian artist born in Haifa.”

This extraordinary episode has much to teach us.