Hi Stan, It appears that I was dropped from this list in August. Can you please reinstate me? Do you know of a good setting of St. Andrew's apolitikion in...
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Stan Takis
takistan
Nov 17, 2006 5:57 am
Nick: It looks like you are still on the list to me. There hasn't been much activity in a long time. Actually, not SINCE August. I still have issues I want to...
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Nick Tarlson
ntarl
Nov 17, 2006 7:16 pm
Thanks, Stan.I am on the list then. _____ From: greekorthodoxmusic@yahoogroups.com [mailto:greekorthodoxmusic@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Stan Takis Sent:...
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Alexandros Andreou
aalexandros888
Nov 27, 2006 4:45 am
I found an enlightening article by Dr. Ivan Gardner about the spiritual and psychological reasons why Orthodox music should be neither instrumental nor...
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Stan Takis
takistan
Nov 29, 2006 3:59 am
Dear Alexandros: First, before I critique this article, let me briefly state my practice on instrumental music and polyphony in the Church. My choir always...
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Stan Takis
takistan
Nov 29, 2006 4:21 pm
Dear List Members: I have finished the latest version of our Divine Liturgy book. This book retains the format of our Plagal Fourth Liturgy book, with ...
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Stan Takis
takistan
Nov 29, 2006 4:26 pm
Somehow the comma after my website's link got attached to the address and it won't work with a comma at the end. Here it is without the comma. The website is: ...
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aalexandros888
Nov 29, 2006 6:17 pm
Dear Stan, It is true that the words becomes subordinate to the music in slow pieces such as the cherubic hymn, but this doesn't mean that we can allow just...
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byzmusic
Nov 29, 2006 10:13 pm
Dear Alexandros, You have some good arguments, but if you are implying that instruments could be allowed in Orthodox liturgical music as a concession, then I...
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Stan Takis
takistan
Nov 30, 2006 6:07 am
Dear Alexandros, ... I'm sure you know more about the history than I do, but let me just ask, where did kalophonia come from? It is agreed that it was an ...
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Alexandros Andreou
aalexandros888
Nov 30, 2006 6:10 pm
Dear Stan, Thanks for presenting all those quotes from the Liturgical Guidebook. It amazes me to see how so many of them want to claim that their music is ...
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Stan Takis
takistan
Nov 30, 2006 7:58 pm
Dear Alexandros: ... If the Church could accept the non-Orthodox contributions to the liturgical music of the Turks and the Bulgars, why can't it accept the ...
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Alexandros Andreou
aalexandros888
Nov 30, 2006 8:40 pm
Dear Stan, It is one thing for the Orthodox Church to allow subtle influences from heterodox music and another thing entirely for her to abruptly discard her...
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Stan Takis
takistan
Nov 30, 2006 10:33 pm
Dear Alexandros: Right. The only thing is, up until 1054 the "Church as a whole" included Western Europe, and by then the Western European musical tradition...
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Alexandros Andreou
aalexandros888
Dec 1, 2006 2:01 am
Dear Stan, Those statements of yours are very misleading. First, it would be rather simplistic to believe that everything in the West until 1053 was perfectly...
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Stan Takis
takistan
Dec 1, 2006 2:39 am
Dear Alexandros: Well, you are right about that. The Church did not become schismatic over night. It took a couple of hundred years or more. I still think the...
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Alexandros Andreou
aalexandros888
Dec 1, 2006 3:23 am
If language was a primary factor in shaping the music, it wouldn't have taken them 1000 years to realize that Latin is supposedly more compatible with...
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justduck26
Dec 1, 2006 4:20 pm
Hello, I was born and raised in Detroit and my church was on Oakland County. I miss it terribly. I'm having problems locating a church similar. I know its a...
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Stan Takis
takistan
Dec 2, 2006 4:37 am
Dear Maria: Well, I know that Dean Limberakis conducts a choir with organ at the Annunciation Cathedral at the corner of Parker and Ruggles Streets in Boston. ...
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Pappas, Vicki
vcpappas
Dec 4, 2006 4:02 pm
Dear Maria, I'll send your request to the Boston area Church Music Federation. Vicki...
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Stan Takis
takistan
Dec 22, 2006 4:42 pm
For all my friends on this board, I want to share a congregational song sheet that my priest requested. He wanted the congregation to sing some carols after...
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dananetherton
Jan 30, 2007 7:08 pm
Hi! I'm putting together this year's schedule for personal leave, at work. Each year that there's been a Tri-Level Summer Institute at Holy Cross, I've been...
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Stan Takis
takistan
Feb 2, 2007 4:26 am
Hi Dana! Vicki would know for sure. You could always email her. Stan...
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Stan Takis
takistan
Feb 2, 2007 4:34 am
Here's an article I wrote for our church bulletin. Feel free to post your thoughts. Our priest strongly favors active congregational participation. A BRIEF...
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dananetherton
Feb 6, 2007 10:32 pm
... Thanks, Stan. Sorry for the late response. Vicki caught my e-mail, either here or over on Typikon, and we've exchanged e-mails off-list. Short answer is,...
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Stan Takis
takistan
Feb 27, 2007 7:24 pm
Dear List: The former priest at my church, Assumption in St. Clair Shores, Michigan, has passed away. His funeral will be on Friday morning, March 2. If any of...
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Tracey Anderson
justduck26
Feb 27, 2007 7:52 pm
What is the Priest name? I used to live in Detroit. + Maria Despina ... From: Stan Takis <takistan@...> To: greekorthodoxmusic@yahoogroups.com Sent:...
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Stan Takis
takistan
Feb 28, 2007 2:24 am
Sorry, Maria. I put his name in the title, but not in the text. His name is Demetrios Kavadas. Stan...
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Stan Takis
takistan
Mar 30, 2007 9:22 pm
Some members who use Macintosh computers and downloaded PDF files from our website, www.newbyz.org, were unable to open them. I did a little investigating, and...
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Stan Takis
takistan
Mar 31, 2007 6:26 pm
Dear List Members: I have been busy over the last few weeks updating our website. I will continue to do this over the next few months, but I've made enough ...
