Kriste aghdga (Christ is Risen) – Georgian Easter chants

Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared on John Graham’s website featuring his tours of Georgia and Georgian liturgical music. We are reposting it here because it will be of great interest and assistance to any choirs who would like to add Georgian settings of ‘Christ is risen’ to their repertoire. Since posting this, John has added additional…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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The Clarion Choir Extends the Visibility of Maximilian Steinberg’s Passion Week with New Recording and Russian Tour

Last year, readers of the Orthodox Arts Journal read about the significance of Passion Week  by Maximilian Steinberg (1883–1946), a newly rediscovered choral masterpiece based almost entirely upon early Russian chant melodies. Completed in 1923 in St. Petersburg, just a few weeks before the communist authorities banned all composition and performance of sacred music, the…

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The Idea of Canonicity in Orthodox Liturgical Art

First published in Composing and Chanting in the Orthodox Church: Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Orthodox Church Music, Joensuu: ISOCM/University of Joensuu, 2009, 337-342  © 2009 Ivan Moody All rights reserved.   The Idea of Canonicity in Orthodox Liturgical Art Ivan Moody  “Divine beauty is transmitted to all that exists, and it is…

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Pan-Orthodox Music Symposium Announced for June 2016

Registration now open for Minneapolis event Minneapolis, MN – The International Society for Orthodox Church Music (www.isocm.com) will host a pan-Orthodox music symposium at St Mary’s Orthodox Cathedral from Wednesday, June 22 through Sunday, June 26, 2016. The event will include presentations and workshops, music reading sessions, rehearsals, and will culminate in a festive hierarchical…

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