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Aidan Hart’s New Book on Icons in the Modern World
In the spirit of Aidan Hart’s last series for OAJ (Holy Icons in Today’s World: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3), his most recent book, “BEAUTY MATTER SPIRIT: Icons in the Modern World”, focuses on the implications of the icon and its theology for our lives in the twenty-first century. 256 pages. Over 30 colour plates.…
Continue reading »UPDATE: Seven Successful Candidates to Receive Certificates in Byzantine Music
Editor’s note: A previous version of this article appeared last week, before the examinations had taken place. This entry serves to report on the outcome of the examinations. For the first time in history, an American academic institution has awarded a Certificate of Byzantine Music. Eight applicants were examined by a board of five renowned Byzantine cantors last weekend…
Continue reading »Concert—Deep Roots Are Not Reached by the Frost: The Enduring Russian Sacred Choral Tradition, 1830 to the Present
On May 31, at Holy Trinity Orthodox Church in Danbury, CT, the St. Tikhon of Zadonsk Chamber Choir will give a concert of Russian Orthodox liturgical music in the final installment of the church’s third annual “Music on the Mount” concert series. The St. Tikhon of Zadonsk Chamber Choir is an ensemble of Orthodox professional…
Continue reading »PaTRAM Master Class held in Holy Trinity Monastery and Seminary during Cheese-Fare Week
Editor’s Note: The following is a guest submission from Deacon Ephraim Willmarth of Holy Trinity Seminary. ____________________________________________ From Monday, February 24 to Thursday, February 28, a group of church singers and directors gathered in Holy Trinity Monastery and Seminary to rehearse and study with Maestro Vladimir Gorbik, choirmaster of the Holy Trinity-St. Sergius Lavra Dependency…
Continue reading »Further Efforts Toward a Christian Culture
Editor’s Note: Though the following is not directly related to the traditional liturgical arts of the Orthodox Church, it is important to highlight the efforts of those who borrow from the art within the Church in order to influence and engage contemporary culture without. What Nicholas Kotar and his colleagues are doing is cultural missionary…
Continue reading »Orthodox Banners for the March for Life
New World Byzantine Studios donated new banners for the Orthodox delegation to the annual March for Life, which took place on January 22nd in Washington D.C. The project began when members of Saint Vladimir’s Seminary expressed a desire for attractive new banners that would project the character and dignity of Orthodoxy. Andrew Gould designed and made them…
Continue reading »Boston Byzantine Music Festival 2014
I am pleased to pass along news of the upcoming Boston Byzantine Music Festival. The two-day event is hosted by the Mary Jaharis Center for Art and Culture at Hellenic College Holy Cross, and will take place on February 24-25. Byzantine art is commonly associated with mystical iconography and majestic architecture of domed cathedrals, but…
Continue reading »Gilding Course to be Taught by Christabel Anderson
Iconographer, manuscript illuminator, and OAJ contributor Christabel Anderson will be teaching a fully booked eight-week course on the ancient art of gilding at the Prince’s School for the Traditional Arts in London beginning February 6. As a follow-up to this course, and the others she’s taught previously, Anderson will be conducting a five-day course at the…
Continue reading »“Beauty Will Save Us”: Fifth Annual Climacus Conference this February in Louisville
Note – The conference organizers have just announced that the conference will be postponed for one year. It will be held February 12-14, 2015. ____________________________________________________________________________ The Climacus Conference is a classical Christian intellectual/spiritual event featuring scholars and voices across the fields of Theology, Philosophy, Classical Education, Literature, and History/Politics. It is unique in that it…
Continue reading »Visualising Late Antiquity
Those of us practicing iconography and various church arts often work with ancient techniques, pigments, tools and materials which express the liturgical meaning of the subject. We strive for the union of the medium with the message, to put it in current parlance and simplify. Here is a new website where artist Will…
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