The talks from “We Knew Not If We Were In Heaven Or On Earth: Music, Liturgy, and Beauty in Orthodox Christianity” are now posted on Ancient Faith Radio’s website. Many thanks to John Maddex for making them available through this medium! Also, photos from the event can be viewed here — thanks to Anna Pougas for being the day’s official (more or less) photographer!
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Audio from Orthodox Music Symposium now on Ancient Faith Radio
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Orthodox Music Symposium at Indiana University — “We knew not if we were in heaven or on earth…”: Music, Liturgy, and Beauty in Orthodox Christianity
Published 29 September 2010 Academia , General , Media , music , The Orthodox Faith , Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: alexander khalil, all saints bloomington, american orthodox music, byzantine chant, chant, early music institute, ecclesiastical chant, ethnomusicologists, ethnomusicology, friends of music at all saints, hazards of church music, indiana humanities council, john michael boyer, kurt sander, liturgical music, medieval byzantine chant, national forum of greek orthodox church musicians, orthodox music symposium at indiana university, random acts of chant, richard toensing, sacred music, vicki pappas, why do we need beautiful music in churches?
Given that there are two performing members of Cappella Romana on the panel, as well as two composers whom CR has performed, CR was nice enough to include a notice about the Symposium in their current e-newsletter (thank you, Mark!). For those readers clicking through to my blog for information (and anybody else who is finding this site looking for Symposium details), here’s the scoop:
All Saints Orthodox Church and The Early Music Institute of the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music present:
The Musical Heritage of the Orthodox Church
“We knew not if we were in heaven or on earth…”: Music, liturgy, and beauty in Orthodox Christianity
Saturday, 16 October 2010
Sweeney Hall (Simon Music Center 015)
Lecture recitals and panel discussion featuring:
- John Michael Boyer of Cappella Romana
- Alexander Khalil, Ph. D., of University of California at San Diego
- Kurt Sander, D. M., of Northern Kentucky University
- Richard Toensing, D. M., emeritus of University of Colorado at Boulder
Schedule:
- 8:00am: Hall opens
- 8:30am: Brief introductory remarks
- 9:00: Boyer
- 10:00: Khalil
- 11:00-11:30: Break
- 11:30: Sander
- 12:30: Toensing
- 1:30: Panel discussion, moderated by Dr. Vicki Pappas, National Forum of Greek Orthodox Church Musicians National Chairman
Download a poster here. Download a press release here.
This program has been made possible by a matching grant from the Indiana Humanities Council, in cooperation with the National Endowment for the Humanities. Additional co-sponsors include:
- The IU Medieval Studies Institute
- The IU Center for Middle East Studies (a unit so new there’s no website yet!)
- The IU Russian and East European Institute
- The IU Center for West European Studies
- The IU Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology
- Bloomingfoods Market and Deli
- The National Forum of Greek Orthodox Church Musicians
- The Department of Sacred Music of the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America
For any additional information, please e-mail me at rrbarret (AT) indiana.edu or call me at (812) 219-0286.
Looking forward to seeing you all there!
Orthodox Music Symposium at Indiana University a recipient of grant from the National Form of Greek Orthodox Church Musicians
Published 27 September 2010 Academia , General , Media , music , The Orthodox Faith 1 CommentTags: alexander khalil, all saints bloomington, american orthodox music, byzantine chant, chant, early music institute, ecclesiastical chant, ethnomusicologists, ethnomusicology, friends of music at all saints, hazards of church music, indiana humanities council, john michael boyer, kurt sander, liturgical music, medieval byzantine chant, national forum of greek orthodox church musicians, orthodox music symposium at indiana university, random acts of chant, richard toensing, sacred music, vicki pappas, why do we need beautiful music in churches?
I just found out this evening that we are the recipient of a grant from the National Forum of Greek Orthodox Church Musicians. As with all the other organizations that have been generous in supporting us, I’m incredibly grateful, but it is wonderful to see our little event, intended to represent a cross-section of musical heritages of the Orthodox world, be supported across jurisdictional lines. Dr. Vicki Pappas, National Chairman of the National Forum, cited this as a factor in the award letter:
The members felt that while it was unusual for us to support an individual parish and one not within the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese’s jurisdiction, we also felt that your plans were cross-jurisdictional and served to highlight and benefit Orthodox church musicians in general to a very high degree.
In a way, the National Forum grant application is what got this going in the first place. Originally I had just planned on having John Boyer and Kurt Sander, and then I helped another organization write a National Forum grant proposal. While I was writing it, I realized — “Hey! I could apply for one of these too! And actually, if I expanded the slate of speakers, I’d have a better proposal!” So I checked with Alexander Khalil and Dr. Toensing to see if they were up for it — they were, and I submitted the application. After that, I got to thinking — “You know, I have a finished grant proposal sitting on my hard drive that I might be able to tailor for other organizations.” So, I started looking around to see what else might be out there, and — well, things happened from there.
All of this is to say, I’m really thrilled that the grant proposal that started the ball rolling to begin with bore fruit in the end. Thank you very much, Dr. Pappas and the National Forum!
Orthodox Music Symposium at Indiana University recipient of Humanities Initiative Grant from the Indiana Humanities Council
Published 24 September 2010 Academia , General , Media , music , The Orthodox Faith Leave a CommentTags: alexander khalil, all saints bloomington, american orthodox music, byzantine chant, chant, early music institute, ecclesiastical chant, ethnomusicologists, ethnomusicology, friends of music at all saints, hazards of church music, indiana humanities council, john michael boyer, kurt sander, liturgical music, medieval byzantine chant, orthodox music symposium at indiana university, random acts of chant, richard toensing, sacred music, why do we need beautiful music in churches?
Between school, the symposium, and Flesh of My Flesh being on her yearlong adventure in Germany, my life has been pretty much consumed on all fronts as of late, but I found out some fantastic news tonight that I wanted to make sure was disseminated as quickly and thoroughly as possible.
The symposium has been awarded a $2,000 Humanities Initiative Grant from the Indiana Humanities Council. I found out about this particular funding opportunity back in July, and as the deadline was 2 August I had to assemble the application very quickly (not to mention while I was in the middle of Kurt Sander’s recording project), but Prof. Rosemarie McGerr, the director of IU’s Medieval Studies Institute, and Mark Trotter, the Assistant Director and Outreach Coordinator for IU’s Russian and East European Institute, were very helpful and generous with their time, and provided wonderful letters of support for the proposal. After I hit “send” in the Starbucks in NKU’s student union building, there was nothing but to keep working on other sponsorship possibilities, and hold my breath.
In many ways I am less excited about the financial support than I am thrilled that the merit of what we’re putting together is being visibly acknowledged. I look at this as a huge step forward in terms of forging a relationship between All Saints and the university where together we can put together events that cultivate interest in Orthodox Christianity and raise awareness that All Saints exists in the first place. This is an academic event, yes, and it seems to me that there is much that an Orthodox parish in a college town should be able to offer in terms of intellectual and cultural interest, but it is also as a form of outreach to the campus. This is a way of being able to say, “Come and see.” Or, in this case, “Come and hear.”
It’s also a demonstration that support is out there for projects like this, and that All Saints doesn’t have to be the little church in the middle of nowhere that everybody ignores. I’m supposed to write letters to Indiana’s congressional delegation so that they know this is happening, since this is ultimately federal money. Yes, there is an Orthodox church in Bloomington, and even our congressmen know it!
By the way, if you aren’t able to attend the symposium but still want to support us in some way, please get in touch with me. Even with the IHC grant, there are still plenty of opportunities to be involved from afar. Drop me a line at rrbarret (AT) indiana.edu.
I guess this is technically publicity for the symposium, so that means I have to include this text: This program has been made possible through a matching grant from the Indiana Humanities Council in cooperation with the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Leitourgeia kai Qurbana: Contra den Zeitgeist 