The term "High Church" refers to beliefs and practices of ecclesiology, liturgy and theology, generally with an emphasis on formality, and resistance to "modernization." Although used in connection with various Christian traditions, the term has traditionally been principally associated with the Anglican tradition.

The term is often used to describe Anglican churches using a number of ritual practices associated in the popular mind with Roman Catholicism. Sacrosanctum Concilium states that: "in the earthly liturgy we take part in a foretaste of the heavenly liturgy", having to do with sanctity and respect for God, Jesus, and the church as the Body of Christ. As such high church Anglicans espouse a position that the church as an organisation and the congregation at worship is "catholic" primarily in the sense that it is joined through its ritual to the "universal" church, and so they use the terms "High Church" and "Anglo-Catholic".

Because of its history, the term "High Church" also refers to aspects of Anglicanism quite distinct from the Oxford Movement or Anglo-Catholicism. There remain parishes that are "High Church" and yet adhere closely to the quintessentially Anglican usages and liturgical practices of the Book of Common Prayer.

Reginald R. Robinson (born October 19, 1972) is a noted composer and performer of ragtime music. In 2004, he received a MacArthur Genius Grant. He was raised by working class parents in Chicago, for many years living in the Henry Horner Homes, a South Side housing project. He has absolute pitch.

Reginald Robinson's interest in older music started at home in 1984 with his older brother Marlando playing music on the guitar and listening to big band jazz recordings on chuck schaden's old time radio classics. Robinson's love for ragtime music came In 1986, when he was in seventh grade. Composer/trumpeter Orbert Davis visited his school with his group called From Bach To Bebop through Urban Gateways. They performed a variety of musical works including Scott Joplin's "The Entertainer". This piece intrigued him because, although he had heard it played many times over by ice-cream trucks, he had never considered it as a serious musical work. Robinson wanted to learn the piano, but his families finances only allowed for a small keyboard, which he began teaching himself how to play. In 1987, his mother bought a piano at an affordable price from a neighbor who was moving. He dropped out of school and spent the next three years teaching himself how to compose and write music.