Chris Penn, Tim DeLaughter and the Polyphonic Spree hosted their annual pre-Christmas extravaganza and variety show on Saturday. Now in its 19th year, the event is filled with music, Christmas ...

Texan psychedelic rock choir the Polyphonic Spree, veterans of the early-’00s rock-festival landscape, have only been intermittently active in recent years. In 2020, the Polyphonic Spree released ...

Touring in support of its first album, The Beginning Stages of… , the Polyphonic Spree seemed likely to fall into a novelty-act trap, what with all the people up onstage with their flowing white robes ...

The Pope has called for a revival of the sacred music of the church's past. After folk and rock 'n' roll Masses, what will the faithful make of polyphony, asks Aengus Collins Earlier this summer a ...

If this time of year should prompt everyone to count their blessings, then one precious musical gift shines brightly over ...

The earliest practical example of polyphonic music has been discovered on the bottom of a manuscript at the British Library A manuscript showing the "birth" of 1,000 years of musical tradition has ...

Despite the supposedly perpetual sunny disposition of the guy who leads a robe-laden choir through soaring, psychedelic, symphonic pop music with messianic enthusiasm, The Polyphonic Spree bandleader ...

A tenth-century manuscript has been found to contain the earliest known example of music written for more than one part. The music is a chant dedicated to Boniface, the patron saint of Germany and was ...

It's a wet afternoon in Camden and there's a commotion going on by the canal. Twenty three Texans in brightly-coloured, biblical robes are assembled on a bridge overlooking the lock waiting to have ...

Editor’s note: To listen along as you read, click the links in the text. These pieces were performed for The Economist by the choir of Jesus College, Cambridge. IN 1605 Charles de Ligny, a Frenchman, ...

The Polyphonic Spree will take the torch from The Passion this summer in the Year of the Robe, as the twenty-five-piece choral pop ensemble releases its second album, Together We’re Heavy (nearly as ...