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Creating Culture Today

By Jonathan Pageau on May 7, 2020
Creating Culture Today

In this video, I interview Benedict Sheehan and his wife Talia-Maria.  Benedict is well known by OAJ readers as a composer and the music director at St-Tikhon’s Seminary. He has been quite active in the world of Orthodox music and recently celebrated for his composition of a Divine Liturgy.  In the last few months, what […]

Posted in Theory | Tagged Artefact, Benedict Sheehan, choir, culture, Jonathan Pageau, liturgy, Maria Sheehan, Nicholas Kotar, Orhtodox culture, PaTRAM, St. Tikhon’s Seminary, the symbolic world May 7, 2020

Good Church Music Starts with Kids

By Benedict Sheehan on February 21, 2017
Good Church Music Starts with Kids

In response to some important questions I’ve gotten about teaching kids to sing in church, I’ve asked my wife Maria Sheehan, a longtime music teacher, to write a guest post based on her experience. — Benedict Editor’s note: This article is republished from Benedict Sheehan’s blog, The Music Stand. *** I have been a vocal […]

Posted in Music | Tagged children, choir, education, kids, Music, Orthodox, sheehan, youth February 21, 2017

The State of Church Singing in America: An Interview with Choirmaster Benedict Sheehan

By Benedict Sheehan on September 28, 2015
The State of Church Singing in America: An Interview with Choirmaster Benedict Sheehan

Editor’s Note: This interview appeared originally on pravoslavie.ru, with questions posed by Jesse Dominick. Benedict Sheehan is a composer, conductor, arranger, writer about, and teacher of, music. He currently plies his trade at St. Tikhon’s Orthodox Theological Seminary and Monastery, where, since 2010, he has taught Orthodox liturgical music and directed the choirs. Benedict is also a regular […]

Posted in Music | Tagged Benedict Sheehan, choir, choral, Music, Orthodox, parish, russian, Saint Tikhon’s, sining, vladimir gorbik September 30, 2015

Magnificat: Hymns to the Mother of God from East and West

By Fr. Patrick O'Rourke on November 19, 2013
Magnificat: Hymns to the Mother of God from East and West

St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary’s male octet (which can be heard here) will be performing on November 25 in New York City in a joint performance with a Schola from St. Joseph’s (Roman Catholic) Seminary. The SVS section of the program will feature hymns from all the feasts of the Church year, thus illustrating the life […]

Posted in Music, News | Tagged choir, orthodox music, Roman Catholic, Seminary, St. Vlads, SVOTS July 14, 2014

Notes from the psalterion, updated and annotated — part V, in which bricks and mortar concerns are considered

By Richard Barrett on August 22, 2013

This is post 5 of 6 in the series “Notes from The Psalterion” Far more time has elapsed between the last installment of this series and this one than I had intended; my apologies. I’ll try to wrap it up with relative despatch; I had not really expected that this project would take more than […]

Posted in Music | Tagged accoustics, Architecture, athos, cantor, chant, choir, liturgy, Music, Orthodox April 1, 2017

Notes from the psalterion, updated and annotated — part IV, in which the question is asked, “Shouldn’t you be at rehearsal?”

By Richard Barrett on March 1, 2013

This is post 4 of 6 in the series “Notes from The Psalterion” Part one of this series outlined an argument as to why Orthodox liturgical singing needs to be treated as a privilege, a craft, and a discipline. I’ve spent some time on the craft end of the discussion; I’d like to now devote […]

Posted in Music | Tagged chanting, choir, learning, liturgy, Music, Orthodox, practice April 1, 2017

St. Tikhon’s Seminary to Present “Hymns of Holy Russia in the New World”

By Benedict Sheehan on February 7, 2013
St. Tikhon's Seminary to Present "Hymns of Holy Russia in the New World"

A Master Class and Concert with Vladimir Gorbik — Feb. 28 to Mar. 3, 2013 As part of its 75th anniversary celebration, Saint Tikhon’s Seminary will host a rigorous three-day master class for the select student choirs of three of America’s premier Orthodox Christian seminaries — Saint Tikhon’s Seminary, Saint Vladimir’s Seminary, and Holy Trinity […]

Posted in Music, News | Tagged Benedict Sheehan, chant, chanting, choir, Holy Trinity, hymns, master class, Orthodox, Russia, Saint Tikhon’s, Saint-Vladimir's, Seminary, st-sephen's cathedral, vladimir gorbik July 14, 2014

Russia—A Musical Pilgrimage

By Benedict Sheehan on February 4, 2013
Russia—A Musical Pilgrimage

A Travelogue December 27, 2012 – January 9, 2013 Vladimir Gorbik  Conductor, teacher, mentor, friend—Vladimir Gorbik is arguably the finest living conductor of Russian church music, and the reason for my journey to Moscow this past December and January. Over the course of about two weeks I was privileged to work closely with him and […]

Posted in Music, News, Uncategorized | Tagged Benedict Sheehan, chant, chanting, choir, Lavra, moscow, orthodox music, St-Tikhon of moscow, St-Tikhon of zadonsk, travel, trip, vladimir gorbik July 14, 2014

The Saint John of Damascus Society on NPR’s “Harmonia Early Music”

By Richard Barrett on December 11, 2012
The Saint John of Damascus Society on NPR's "Harmonia Early Music"

The mission of The Saint John of Damascus Society is “revealing Orthodox Christianity through its sacred music”, and one part of how we seek to do this to be a collaborative partner for existing arts organizations and entities on projects promoting Orthodox liturgical music. Our first collaboration to reach the public eye is a segment […]

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged antiphony, chanting, choir, greek, harmonia, liturgical music, liturgy, Music, npr, Orthodox Church, orthodox music, Orthodoxy, polyphony, psalterion, Richard Barret, slavonic July 14, 2014

The 22nd Russian Orthodox Church Musicians’ Conference

By Jonathan Pageau on November 2, 2012
The 22nd Russian Orthodox Church Musicians’ Conference

(Editorial note: George Skok, the choir director of Holy Trinity Cathedral in Toronto kindly sent us this summary of ROCOR’s recent Orthodox Church Musicians’ Conference which gathered an amazing array of musical experts from Russia and North America.  Among these, our own Benedict Sheehan led a seminar for the group. The Article is by V.V. […]

Posted in Music | Tagged Benedict Sheehan, chant, choir, Ekaterina N. Sadikova, George A. Skok, Holy Trinity Cathedral, Kurt Sander, Mariya V. Bakhvalova, Music, Orthodox, Priest Mikhail Asmus, ROCOR, Russia, toronto, Vladimir A. Gorbik July 14, 2014
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