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In this long-format interview, Andrew Gould discusses numerous aspects of liturgical arts and architecture with Anglican organist Matthew Wilkinson. Our conversation touches upon church architecture, Eastern and Western rites, American cultural heritage from hymn-singing to fine woodworking, robotic production of ornamentation, historic styles from baroque to brutalist, liturgical music, acoustics, and much more.
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I thoroughly enjoyed listening to this conversation.
I’m still trying to figure out how to achieve this genuinely American and faithfully Orthodox liturgical musical sound; it seems some hit near the mark, but I still haven’t been overly taken with much of it (Though Olivia’s “Thy Bridal Chamber” was lovely).
I’m interested in seeing where it ends up.
On an unrelated note, this is probably the friendliest shoutout I’ve received from Matthew…
Wow thanks for this interview, and for making me now secretly love brutalism – I was just arguing about it with some architects.
Andrew, I am curious, would you see some art deco styles being used for churches?
Sure, Art Deco is a beautiful style, and has its uses. There are plenty of historic American churches that are Art Deco to some extent. Like any of the more modern or affected styles, I would use it on an Orthodox church project only if there were a good reason. An example would be a new church in a Midwestern city where the predominant style of historic architecture is Art Deco. In that case, I’d use it as a local reference, to give the church a sense of place.