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Byzantine Music is Choral Music

By Richard Barrett on January 29, 2020
Byzantine Music is Choral Music

Some years ago, a singer who was primarily active in Russian Orthodox choral music pulled me aside at a church music event. “Can I be honest with you about something?” this person said to me. “I don’t understand Byzantine music. To me, it looks like it’s either a soloist or a group of mostly men; […]

Posted in Music | Tagged Byzantine Chant, choral music, richard barrett February 5, 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

A New Translation of the Canon of the Akathist by Fr. Seraphim Dedes

By Richard Barrett on February 25, 2019
A New Translation of the Canon of the Akathist by Fr. Seraphim Dedes

The state of affairs for English-language liturgical texts is fundamentally unstable.  A core problem is that there is no existing body that has either the mission or the competence to review and approve English-language liturgical texts, so there is no settled path to a text being adopted once it is produced. In addition, differing jurisdictions […]

Posted in Music | Tagged ages initiative, akathist, akathistos, english translation, richard barrett, seraphim dedes February 25, 2019

Heaven and Earth: The Psalm 103 Project Comes to Life

By Richard Barrett on August 29, 2018
Heaven and Earth: The Psalm 103 Project Comes to Life

It has been over five years since The Saint John of Damascus Society commissioned The Psalm 103 Project, a big idea that brought together the work of six great composers, Matthew Arndt, John Michael Boyer, Alexander Khalil, Kurt Sander, Richard Toensing (+2014), and Tikey Zes, to create a unique, collaborative choral work that would be a model of […]

Posted in Music | Tagged capella romana, psalm 103 project, richard barrett August 29, 2018

The Psalm 103 Project: A Status Report

By Richard Barrett on October 14, 2015
The Psalm 103 Project: A Status Report

It has been a little over two years since my last update on The Psalm 103 Project for Orthodox Arts Journal, so, perhaps now would be a good time to bring everybody up to speed again. The Psalm 103 Project, for those just now joining us, is a major undertaking of The Saint John of Damascus Society. It […]

Posted in Music, News | Tagged John Damascene Society, musical setting, psalm 103, psalm 103 project, richard barrett October 19, 2015

Travelogue: The International Society for Orthodox Church Music 2015

By Richard Barrett on October 5, 2015
ISOCM Conference Members, 2015

In June of 2014, I was a participant in Kurt Sander’s Pan-Orthodox Liturgical Music Symposium at Northern Kentucky University. While I was there, a gentleman whose acquaintance I had newly made, one David Lucs, on hand to give a presentation on children’s music education, was rather excitedly asking virtually everybody during a coffee break, “Are […]

Posted in Music, News, Reviews | Tagged chant, Finland, ISOCM, Ivan Moody, Music, richard barrett October 3, 2015

The problem of art in Anglophone Orthodoxy: a review essay

By Richard Barrett on January 24, 2015
The problem of art in Anglophone Orthodoxy: a review essay

Recently, an online exchange about public outreach efforts with respect to various aspects of Orthodox music and music of Orthodox composers led the following comment by a discussant: What exactly is so “Orthodox” about any kind of pure music? […] [T]o associate any composer with the Church is an empty exercise, since music has only […]

Posted in Music | Tagged art, Arvo Pärt, capella romana, church, George Kordis, Ivan Moody, John Taverner, Jonathan Jackson, Mikko Sidoroff, Music, Neil Gaiman, Orthodox, richard barrett January 29, 2015

The 2014 Pan-Orthodox Liturgical Music Symposium: Reflections and Reviews

By Andrew Gould on August 24, 2014
The 2014 Pan-Orthodox Liturgical Music Symposium: Reflections and Reviews

The 2014 Pan-Orthodox Liturgical Music Symposium took place July 12-15 at Northern Kentucky University. The following is a series of reflections upon the symposium written by some of the main organizers and participants. I highly recommend that anyone who did not attend the event should read this. It paints an inspiring picture of an American […]

Posted in Music | Tagged 2014 Pan-Orthodox Liturgical Music Symposium, Byzantine, choral, Kurt Sander, Northern Kentucky University, Orthodox, Peter Jermihov, POLMS, richard barrett, russian, sacred music, Sergei Glagolev, Vladimir Morosan August 25, 2014

The current state of things with the Saint John of Damascus Society’s Psalm 103 project

By Richard Barrett on September 30, 2013
The current state of things with the Saint John of Damascus Society's Psalm 103 project

Back in April, I posted about the Saint John of Damascus Society‘s Kickstarter campaign for the first phase of the Psalm 103 project. I’m happy to say that it was more than successful, and we’re just about to deliver on one of the first parts this phase. Before I get to that, let me tell […]

Posted in Liturgy, Music, News | Tagged chant, indiana, Music, Orthodox, richard barrett, st-john of damascus society July 8, 2014
 

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