The new song’s composer thought it could be a way to again hear from Black churches, collectively, about civil rights.

The Chester River Chorale spring semester, under the direction of Artistic Director Alexis Ward and Assistant Director ...

Dec. 24—As haunting harmonies drifted through the rafters of the third-floor attic chapel, echoes of the past rose and fell with the voices signing from the pages of an 1873 shape-note hymnal. The ...