Date/Time
Date(s) - 5 Dec 2014
7:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Location
Union Theological Seminary
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The Axion Estin Foundation, in collaboration with Columbia University’s Music Department and the Sophia Institute announces the 2014 Mostly Orthros Conference. The conference will take place on December 5th, 2014, at Union Theological Seminary, New York City.
The Mostly Orthros Conferences feature distinguished speakers from around the world and historically-informed chant demonstrations by invited virtuoso chanters and choirs. This year’s Mostly Orthros Conference marks the third edition of the foundation’s flagship publication “Great Theory of Music” by Chrysanthos of Madytos with translation and commentary by Dr. Katy Romanou. The third edition includes a new forward by Dr. Grammenos Karanos, Assistant Professor of Byzantine Music at Hellenic College Holy Cross in Brookline, MA, and marks the 200-year anniversary (1814-2014) of the introduction of the “New Method” of teaching Byzantine Music based on Chrysanthos’ reform of the musical notation. This year’s keynote address by Marcel Pérès, founder and director of Ensemble Organum, will focus on a renowned music manuscript of the Cathedral of Benevento, Italy, featuring Latin and Greek music texts chanted antiphonally.
Significant events scheduled around this year’s Mostly Orthros conference include a) Byzantine Christmas concerts at the Metropolitan Museum’s Medieval Sculpture Hall on December 5th, 2014, at 2 pm, 4 pm, and 6 pm, b) participation at the Great Vespers Service at Saint Nicholas Greek Orthodox Shrine Church, Flushing, New York, on December 5th, 2014, at 7:30 pm, featuring antiphonal Byzantine chanting by virtuoso chanters Eleftherios Eleftheriadis and Christos Chalkias, and c) two concerts at the Cloisters Museum on December 6, 2014, at 1 pm and 3 pm featuring the world renowned Ensemble Organum directed by Marcel Pérès and virtuoso chanter Christos Chalkias of Thessaloniki, Greece, in a rare juxtaposition of Greek Byzantine and Latin chant on the occasion of the feast of Saint Nicholas.
For registration information please visit http://music.columbia.edu/MostlyOrthrosConference120514
PROGRAM
Mostly Orthros Symposium, Union Theological Seminary (Room 207), Friday December 5, 2014
Registration: 8:30 AM – 9:00 AM
Flat registration fee $55.00 payable at the door (free to Columbia University students)
Registration payable in cash or by check to The Axion Estin Foundation
Coffee and welcome: 9:00 AM
Session I: 9:15 AM – 10:30 AM
Chair: Susan Boynton, Department of Music, Columbia University
John Glasenapp OSB, Department of Music, Columbia University
Moving in Time: History, Liturgy, and Multimedia in the Exultet Rolls of Southern Italy
Lindsay Cook, Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University
The Exultet Roll as Amplifier of Visible Clerical Rank in Medieval Southern Italy
Response: Warren Woodfin, Kallinikeion Assistant Professor, Queens College of the City University of New York.
Coffee Break: 10:30 AM – 11:00 AM
Keynote address: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Peter Jeffery, Michael P. Grace II Chair of Medieval Studies and co-director of the Master of Sacred Music program, University of Notre Dame; Professor of Music History Emeritus, Princeton University
Safeguarding the Musical Traditions of Eastern Christianity
Lunch Break: 12:00 PM – 1:15 PM (sandwiches provided onsite)
1:15 PM – 2:00 PM
Marcel Pérès, founder and director of Ensemble Organum
In Memoriam Lycourgos Angelopoulos
Coffee Break: 2:00 PM – 2:30 PM
Session II: 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM
Chair: Peter Jeffery, University of Notre Dame
Alexander Lingas, Reader in Music and BMus Programme Director, Department of Music, School of Arts and Social Sciences, City University London
‘Their Psalmody Is [Still] Not Foreign’: Greek and Latin Chanting in the Eastern Mediterranean, 1000–1500 AD
Spyridon Antonopoulos, Ph.D. City University London; director of St Mark’s Byzantine Choir
Text and Melody in the Kalophonic Stavrotheotokia of Manuel Chrysaphes
Break: 3:30 PM – 3:45 PM
Session III: 3:45 PM – 4:45 PM
Chair: Angelo Lampousis, City University of New York
Mehmet Ali Sanlikol, faculty of College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA, and fellow at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University.
Cultural Translations of Ottoman/Turkish Music in Byzantine Neumes: documenting the musical evolution of Makam
Grammenos Karanos, Assistant Professor of Byzantine Liturgical Music, Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology, Brookline, MA
Chrysanthos’ Great Theory of Music: ‘Adorning Cities with Melodious Song for a Long Time’
4:45 PM – 5:00 PM Presentation of the 3rd Edition of The Great Theory of Music by Chrysanthos, published by the Axion Estin Foundation. 200 Year Anniversary Collector’s Edition [1814 – 2014].
5:00 PM: Departure for the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
6:00 PM – 6:30 PM: Byzantine Pop-Up Concert, Medieval Sculpture Hall, Metropolitan Museum of Art. Free with Museum admission.
7:30 PM: Great Vespers Service of the feast of Saint Nicholas.
Christos Chalkias and Eleftherios Eleftheriadis, choir directors in antiphonal chanting. Mostly Orthros conference participants welcome. Saint Nicholas Greek Orthodox Shrine Church, 196-10 Northern Blvd, Flushing, NY 11358.
Saturday, December 6, 2014
7:30 AM – 12:30 PM: Orthros and Divine Liturgy of the feast of Saint Nicholas. Eleftherios Eleftheriadis, choir director. Mostly Orthros conference participants welcome. Saint Nicholas Greek Orthodox Shrine Church, 196-10 Northern Blvd, Flushing, NY 11358.
1:00 PM – 2:15 PM and 3 PM – 4:15 PM
Concerts in Praise of Saint Nicholas at the Fuentiduena Chapel at the Cloisters
In Praise of Saint Nicholas, a program of hymns celebrating the feast of Saint Nicholas (270–343), Bishop of Myra in Asia Minor. The world-renowned Ensemble Organum (Marcel Pérès, Director) from France meets virtuoso chanter Christos Chalkias of Thessaloniki, Greece, in a rare juxtaposition of Latin and Greek Byzantine chants in honor of Saint Nicholas. The concert will conclude with excerpts from the manuscript of the Cathedral of Benevento, Italy (Biblioteca Capitolare ms 38 & 40), and will feature Latin and Greek texts (including Ἅγιος ὁ Θεός- Sanctus deus) chanted antiphonally.
Tickets: Call 212-650-2290 (Monday through Friday, between 9:30 a.m. and 5:00 p.m.) to purchase tickets. All tickets are general seating. Seats are limited, and advance purchase is recommended. Concert ticket prices include free same-day admission to the Museum.