Hildegard von Bingen

Composer Gabriela Ortiz at a rehearsal with Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Walt Disney Concert Hall.

For International Women's Day, a feast of classical music by women

Gardner Spitzer

As WRTI honors Women's History Month, hear an expansive range of music composed by women on our broadcast, from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday and 3 to 6 p.m. on Sunday.

Multireedist Chet Doxas and electronics artist Micah Frank, whose new album is 'The Music of Hildegard von Bingen Part One.'

WRTI Spotlight

Chet Doxas and Micah Frank light a fire for Hildegard von Bingen

Nate Chinen

Multireedist Chet Doxas and electronics artist Micah Frank looked to a mystical source on their album 'The Music of Hildegard von Bingen Part One.'

Arts Desk

Inspired by the Healing Music of Hildegard of Bingen

Debra Lew Harder

In an era when women had little voice, 12th-century abbess Hildegard of Bingen founded her own women's monastery, authored volumes of sacred text, served…

Arts Desk

All About Saint Hildegard of Bingen

The Medieval music ensemble Sequentia is performing an all-Hildegard von Bingen concert in Philadelphia on January 29th at the Cathedral Basilica of…

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Heavenly Music From Hildegard Of Bingen, A Soon-To-Be Actual Saint

Anastasia Tsioulcas

Pope Benedict XVI plans to canonize 12th-century composer, mystic, doctor and Benedictine abbess Hildegard von Bingen next year.