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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
I found an enlightening article by Dr. Ivan Gardner about the spiritual and psychological reasons why Orthodox music should be neither instrumental nor...
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 ...
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...
Dear List: I have compiled and edited a list and description of the worship services of the Church from various Internet sources. This list is eight pages long...
I am pleased to announce on behalf of St. Anthony's Monastery in Arizona that we have produced our first recording of Byzantine chant in English. The CD...
Dear List: The Divine Liturgy hymns for the feasts of the Transfiguration and the Dormition of the Theotokos are all up on our website now in both Greek and...
Dear List: Christos Anesti! Here are some things I have learned after serving my first year as choir director in a large metropolitan Greek Orthodox Church....
Dear List: Nancy has finished a translation of the Engomia for the Dormition of the Theotokos in modern English. She originally did these two years ago at the...
Dear List Members: I have upgraded my website. The new URL for New Byzantium Publications is newbyz.org. http://newbyz.org For those of you who may be...
Dear friends, I have written an article about adapting Byzantine melodies from Greek into other languages. To illustrate a point, I have compared various ...
Dear friends, I am delighted to announce the completion of my project to codify the formulas for Byzantine melodies in all sticheraric and heirmologic modes....
... Dear Taso: Quite so. There ARE characteristics that unite all artists. But Byzantine music is very, very different than Western music. Yes, there is...
Dear Friends, If you go to the link below, you will see the beginning of the webpages of the International Society for Orthodox Church Music, which you may...
Dear Group: At my church, there was a long-standing tradition of 4-part, harmonized music with organ accompaniment. A new priest came and made a switch to a...
Dear All: My priest asked me to create a Greek and English pew service text book that contains Nancy's translations of the hymns. I have finished it and am...
(Automela are the pattern-tunes themselves; prosomia are the hymns that use them.) The more complete resource from Fr Seraphim is a printed book available for...
Dear All: I have finally finished formatting the music for the Salutations service in both Greek and Nancy's English. If you are interested, you can download...
I have posted to our website Nancy's presentation at the Axion Estin Conference on Byzantine music, New Rochelle, NY, on January 21, 2006. Here is the link, if...
Dear Kevin and Dana: Fr. Seraphim made a major contribution to the Byzantine music conference with his speeches and his chanting. I believe the right choir at...
Dear All: I'd like to make a few comments and observations about the Axion Estin conference on Byzantine music this past weekend. More about the conference can...
