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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

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

Coming Full Circle: A Masterclass at the Holy Trinity-St. Sergius Lavra

By Seraphim Hanisch on October 17, 2019
Coming Full Circle: A Masterclass at the Holy Trinity-St. Sergius Lavra

On Wednesday, October 2, 2019, a very special choral masterclass was given in the lower room of the Great Bell Tower at the Holy Trinity-St. Sergius Lavra. This monastery is considered the spiritual center of all of Russia and of its Orthodox Church. Several different factors contributed to the particular significance of this masterclass. The […]

Posted in Music | Tagged masterclass, PaTRAM, Russian Orthodox, vladimir gorbik October 17, 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

The Task Fears the Maestro; Reflections on a Choral Master Class with Vladimir Gorbik

By Joseph Nakpil on October 17, 2017
The Task Fears the Maestro; Reflections on a Choral Master Class with Vladimir Gorbik

There is a Russian adage which translates as “the task fears the master craftsman,”[*] meaning work goes well when one knows one’s business. In the case of the recent master class in choral singing and conducting, entitled The Performance and Interpretation of Russian Sacred Choral Music, one could easily change this adage to “the task […]

Posted in Music | Tagged Holy Virgin Mary Cathedral, master class, Orthodox, PaTRAM, russian, vladimir gorbik October 18, 2017

A New Musical Setting of the Divine Liturgy

By Dr. Kurt Sander on August 22, 2017
A New Musical Setting of the Divine Liturgy

Editor’s note: On Tuesday, September 12, 2017 at 9:30 am the PaTRAM Institute singers Choir, conducted by Maestro Peter Jermihov, will sing an original all-English Liturgy based on the Russian style, commissioned by the PaTRAM Institute and composed by Dr. Kurt Sander, at St. Alexander Nevsky Diocesan Cathedral in Howell, NJ. We have asked Dr. […]

Posted in Music | Tagged Divine Liturgy, Kurt Sander, musical, PaTRAM, Peter Jermihov, premier, score, setting August 23, 2017

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

A New Symphony Orchestra Founded upon an Orthodox Christian Aesthetic

By Andrew Gould on March 21, 2017
A New Symphony Orchestra Founded upon an Orthodox Christian Aesthetic

Maestro Vladimir Gorbik, renowned choral director of the Moscow Representation Church of the Holy Trinity-St Sergius Lavra, has founded a new symphony orchestra. Maestro Gorbik, having accomplished so much as a liturgical musician in Russia, and having co-founded PaTRAM in order to share his skills with Orthodox Americans, now wishes to offer his Orthodox musical […]

Posted in Music | Tagged orchestra, Orthodox, PaTRAM, symphony, vladimir gorbik March 21, 2017

Between Discipline and Joy: An Interview with Vladimir Gorbik

By Vladimir Morosan on June 23, 2016
Between Discipline and Joy: An Interview with Vladimir Gorbik

Interviewed by Natalia Gorenok Translated by Vladimir Morosan The art of Church singing as an integral part of the life of the Church, like the Church itself [in Russia], is experiencing a period of revival. Along the way, there are still many difficulties, because many of the traditional practices among choirmasters and church singers were […]

Posted in Artist Features, Music | Tagged PaTRAM, patriarch tikhon choir, Russia, vladimir gorbik June 5, 2017

Building International Bridges Through Orthodox Sacred Music – A New CD from PaTRAM

By Vladimir Morosan on October 31, 2015
Building International Bridges Through Orthodox Sacred Music - A New CD from PaTRAM

The Patriarch Tikhon Choir Releases Its New CD In 2012, Vladimir Gorbik, the eminent Choirmaster of the Moscow Representation Church of the Holy Trinity-St. Sergius Monastery, came to North America for the first time to teach a master class on the interpretation of Russian Orthodox sacred choral music at St. Vladimir’s Seminary. After the success […]

Posted in Music, News | Tagged album, CD, Musica Russica, PaTRAM, patriarch tikhon choir, Russian Orthodox, vladimir gorbik October 31, 2015
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