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With a lecture on the
interplay between liturgical ritual and musical composition, Mark Bailey opened
the Composers Seminar held on the seminary campus June 25–28. Mr Bailey, who
is the Program Director for the Peter P. Prokofieff Advanced Certificate in
Liturgical Music at St Vladimir’s, coordinated the summer seminar, which, he
said, invited Orthodox Christian musicians to “engage in and become immersed in
composition and study, in a way not often afforded them.”
(left to right) Seminarian Bill Churchill discusses a musical composition with master musicians Mark Bailey and David Drillock during the Composers Seminar held at St Vladimir’s campus for four days in June.
Participants
from various Orthodox jurisdictions, including the Orthodox Church in America
(OCA), the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America, and the
Jerusalem Patriarchate, listened to presentations by other renowned Orthodox
musicians and engaged in interactive workshops and tutorials, ending with
master class and project presentations.
In
his talk titled “Transactions of Consequence: The Ritualistic Imperative of
Music in Orthodox Worship,” Bailey focused on the purpose and efficacy of
liturgical rites, accomplished through the combination of prescribed liturgical
movement and comprehensible musical texts. Other program talks included:
"Biblical Canticles and Mythic
Imagination" — Timothy Clark, Lecturer
in New Testament Greek, St Vladimir’s Faculty
“Rachmaninoff's Chant
Technique in the All-Night Vigil, op. 37" — Alla Generalow, Director of Liturgical Music at
St Vladimir's Seminary
"Slavic Translations of Byzantine Hymnography
and Their Significance for Musical Settings in English" — David Drillock, Professor
of Liturgical Music, Emeritus, St Vladimir’s Seminary
"Reminiscences of a
Life in Liturgical Music and Lessons for Composers" — Very Rev. Sergei Glagolev, Honorary Chairman of the
Board for PSALM (Pan-Orthodox Society for the Advancement of Liturgical Music)
"Intonation for
Composers: Learning to Compose In-tune" — Mark Bailey
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