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Blessed Art Thou among Women—a New Release by the PaTRAM Institute Singers

By Vladimir Morosan on April 15, 2020
Blessed Art Thou among Women—a New Release by the PaTRAM Institute Singers

Blessed Art Thou among Women—a New Release by the PaTRAM Institute Singers, Peter Jermihov, Conductor Reviewed by Vladimir Morosan The liturgical tradition of the Orthodox Church is extremely rich with hymnography in honor of the Virgin Mary—the Most Holy Theotokos or Mother of God, as she is typically referred to. Virtually every complex of Orthodox […]

Posted in Music | Tagged album, Music, PaTRAM, Peter Jermihov, Russian Orthodox May 4, 2020

Acoustical Considerations in Orthodox Church Design

By Andrew Gould on April 6, 2020
Acoustical Considerations in Orthodox Church Design

As a designer of Orthodox churches, I am frequently asked whether a proposed church building will have good acoustics. Acoustics is a complex matter that cannot always be catagorized as simply “good” or “bad”. In order to shed some light on this topic, I am going to discuss the various acoustical characteristics encountered in churches, […]

Posted in Architecture, Music | Tagged acoustics, Andrew Gould, Architecture, Byzantine Chant, liturgical, Music, Orthodox, russian April 7, 2020

Introducing the Institute of Sacred Arts at St. Vladimir’s Seminary

By Fr. Silouan Justiniano on March 17, 2020
Introducing the Institute of Sacred Arts at St. Vladimir’s Seminary

  The Holy Liturgy in the Orthodox Church can be said to be the aspiration towards, if not the actualization of, a “complete work of art” – a synthesis of all the arts – whether it be music, painting, mosaic, embroidery, poetry, architecture, sculpture, choreography, rhetoric, etc., at the service of theology and divine worship. […]

Posted in News | Tagged aesthetics, art history, Holy Liturgy, iconography, Master of Arts program, Music, Sacred Arts, St. Vladimir's Seminary, study concentration, Theology March 19, 2020

On Pronouncing Saints’ Names in English

By Hieromonk Herman (Majkrzak) on January 22, 2020
On Pronouncing Saints’ Names in English

At the Name of Jesus, every knee shall bow … and every tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is Lord.       —Phil. 2:10, 11 I You might remember the old song in which a man and woman argue about pronunciation. “You like potayto and I like potahto; you like tomayto and I like […]

Posted in Music, Theory | Tagged Byzantine, choral, English, greek, hieromonk herman, liturgical, Music, Orthodox, pronunciation, saint's names, singing January 25, 2020

Worship in the Workshop: Providing Opportunities to Raise the Bar

By Richard Barrett on September 20, 2019
Worship in the Workshop: Providing Opportunities to Raise the Bar

The joke is at times heard that in the chapels of some of our seminaries, they “don’t worship but workshop.” The sense of this witticism is that what happens in their services is experimentation with rubrics, texts, service order, with an impulse towards “reform.” Over the course of this last summer, however, I was blessed […]

Posted in Music, News | Tagged Byzantine Chant, chant, Greek Orthodox, john michael boyer, liturgical arts academy, Music, richard barrett, workshop September 23, 2019

Benedict Sheehan: Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom (2018)

By Benedict Sheehan on December 6, 2018
Benedict Sheehan: Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom (2018)

Liturgical Music in America Liturgical music is closely bound up with the people that sing it. Language, history, culture, experience, education, social class, all of these things shape the sound-world of worship. The people that founded Orthodox parishes in America more than a century ago—for the most part, immigrants from Russia, Greece, Eastern Europe, and […]

Posted in Artist Features, Liturgy, Music, News | Tagged American, Benedict Sheehan, composition, Divine Liturgy, English, Music, PaTRAM, russian December 7, 2018

Good Music Lifts Us Up Towards God

By Natalya Gorenok on August 3, 2017
Good Music Lifts Us Up Towards God

(This interview with Russian conductor Vladimir Gorbik was first published in Pravoslavie i sovremennost, the official journal of the Diocese of Saratov, Russia) As previously reported in the Orthodox Arts Journal, a new symphony orchestra has been established in Moscow under the direction of Vladimir Gorbik—chief choirmaster of the Holy Trinity-St. Sergius Representation (Podvorye) in […]

Posted in Music | Tagged interview, Music, orchestra, Orthodox, PaTRAM, russian, symphony, vladimir gorbik August 3, 2017

Voice and machine: Technology and Orthodox liturgical music

By Richard Barrett on February 28, 2017
Voice and machine: Technology and Orthodox liturgical music

Recently, iconographer Aidan Hart published the thought-provoking essay “Hand and machine: Making liturgical furnishings”. Mr. Hart’s piece is part of an ongoing exploration by liturgical artists of the question of how technology has changed, and is continuing to change, our relationship to crafts that have up until recently been done by hand. Liturgical designer Andrew Gould has […]

Posted in Liturgy, Music | Tagged AGES, chanting, ipad, liturgy, Music, tablet, technology February 28, 2017

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

Fr. Ivan Moody at SVOTS

By Jonathan Pageau on January 3, 2017
Fr. Ivan Moody at SVOTS

As part of their Sacred Arts Initiative, St-Vladimir Seminary is organizing an event with our own Father Ivan Moody. The event is titled Past, Present and Future of Orthodox Music , and some of the tone and content can be already gleaned from the interview that was done with fr. Ivan by Dr. Peter Bouteneff […]

Posted in Music, News | Tagged chant, Ivan Moody, Music, SVOTS January 3, 2017
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