Dear List: I bought a high definition television a year ago, but I did not get around to ordering the HD channels on my dish until two weeks ago. They have a...
Hristros Anesti!!!! Stan I can understand your feeling regarding the Byzantine chant being the only music for the viewing of Hagia Sophia. However, as a recent...
Oops. I clicked "Send" before I was done. I was going to say, I agree with you about the Seraphim--that argument is unquestioned--but I think the argument this...
The one part that struck a chord was this: " The only argument I can figure somebody might use against the music we commonly call "Byzantine" today is that we...
Hi all, Christ is risen! In such discussions about choirs I rarely see any acknowledgment that Byzantine chant is not sung only by a soloist. The Greek...
... Hi, Kevin! That sounds reasonable, but I think the *positive* gradual subtle changes in liturgical practice that have taken place in Church history are not...
... <herron.samuel@...> wrote: ... that ... and 2) ... because ... more in ... Dear Sam: Who exactly are those people today who make the decisions? Aren't they...
... **** I believe it probably is a combination of a lack of wisdom and courage along with pandering, as you said. I dont think its the theological reasons...
Dear Alexandros, I appreciate your comments and would like to address your two analogies besides proposing one of my own. 1. Iconoclasm was a heresy, of...
... but ... and ... like ... Dear Sam: Sakellarides did transcribe some of his melodies into staff notation and, in the earliest ones I have seen, added some...
Dear Stan, You wrote; ... I'm not sure what you might mean by the above words. "Today's music" is a very large category. "Diversion from Orthodox tradition" ...
... Dear Kevin: I guess I mean any style of music that incorporates the 16th-19th Century Western European music tradition, regardless of quality, rather than...
Dear Stan, ... As does that of Sakellarides? As does yours/Nancy's? I don't see how any music notated and sung by people immersed in the "16th-19th Century...
... According to Johann von Gardner, Roman Catholic polyphony "suddenly burst into Russian liturgical singing from the West in the middle of the seventeenth...
... Yes, except where Sakellarides actually follows tradition, and yes, except when she actually composes music, which is rare, since most of it is traditional...
Dear Stan and Alexandros, Here's a quote from Gardner which I think speaks to some assumptions I believe we do well to examine: From Russian Church Singing,...
... **** Gardner has a wonderfully eloquent way of justifying the Russians' break from tradition. It's as if he is saying that no matter how unorthodox a...
... this ... church music ... end to ... singing an ... Dear Kevin: Maybe so, but the sudden end came in the 18th Century from the reforms of Peter the Great,...
Dear Stan, Now I understand why you would think of the music of the Russian Orthodox Church as a break from tradition. The good news is that the historical...
Dear Kevin: You are indeed offering some information I did not know about, but are all those histories I've read about the reforms of Peter the Great, and...
Dear Stan, The biggest reform of Peter the Great affecting church life was his abolishing of the Patriarchate and installing a sort of Minister of Religion as...
Sorry... I should have written "The Patriarchate was not restored until Lenin's time." Kevin ************************************** See what's free at ...
I would not predicate the Patriarch's restoration on Vladimir Lenin (1870-1924), even used as a historical marker. As though by Providence, Patriarch Tikhon...
Hello Everyone, There has been a plathera of discussions regarding choirs in our churches. I attended the commencement ceremonies at Hellenic College and Holy ...
Tracey: Was it a Byzantine choir or a polyphonic choir? Since you said "not one chanter" I'm assuming it was the latter, but it would surprise me, considering...
Dear Tracey, I believe the real issue here is not Choir Vs Psalti, but westernized 4part harmonized music, accompanied by an organ, as it is sung by most...
... all the ... trends toward ... through ... sources you ... provide some quotes. Dear Kevin: I wish I could! I'm thinking of one famous one by one of the...
Dear Stan, ... You've said something like this before. This "starting from scratch" just didn't happen. I'm not sure what you've heard this, but I know of no...
Dear George, ... There's no doubt that Greek Americans over the past 100 years have struggled with questions of how to be faithful to Tradition while becoming...
