Jaharis Byzantine Center to Host
Boston Byzantine Music Festival November 2014


The Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture is partnering with The New York Life Center for the Study of Pontus & Asia Minor at Hellenic College-Holy Cross to present the Boston Byzantine Music Festival. The Second Boston Byzantine Music Festival presents a dynamic and engaging collection of performances, lectures, and workshops that explore the musical tradition of the Byzantine Empire and its points of contact with the msuic of Western Europe and the Ottoman Empire. Tickets: $25/concert, $40/both concerts; $12 students per concert with valid ID. Lectures and workshops are free, but seating is limited. Advance registration is recommended.




Schedule of Events

14 November 2014, Friday, 2:00pm
"Greeks, Latins, and the Musical Culture osf late Byzantium (Lecture)"
Dr. Alexander Lingas provides the historical context for Cappella Romana's performance of "The Fall of Constantinople."

14 November 2014, Friday, 3:30pm
"Reform and Notation in Early Nineteenth-Century Istanbul (Lecture)"
Dr. Mehmet Ali Sanlikol explores how the idea of "reform" during the early nineteenth century affected musical notation chiefly among Armenian and Greek Orthodox cantors of Istanbul.

14 November 14, 2014, Friday, 7:30pm
"The Fall of Constantinople" (Concert)
Cappella Romana performs its most popular program, "The Fall of Constantinople," a sselection of Latin and Greek works composed during the final century of the Byzantine or Eastern Roman Empire.
Click here for details of musical program.

15 November 2014, Saturday, 9:45am
"Mediterranean Percussion: Styles and techniques (Workshop)"
Drummer and percussionist George Lernis introduces participants to the percussion instruments of the Middele East and the Balkans.

15 November 2014, Saturday, 10:45am
"Greek Ensemble Workshop"
Performer and teacher Beth Bahia Cohen teachers traditional regional dance music.

15 November 2014, Saturday, 1:15pm
"Principles of Conducting a Byzantine Choir (Workshop)"
Dr. Mehmet Ali Sanlikol of the DUNYA ensemble presents the fundamentals of singing classical Ottoman music written in usual (rhythmic cycles).

15 November 2014, Saturday, 3:15pm
"Composing Byzantine Music in English (Workshop)"
Accomplished composer Timothy gabriel Cremeens leads a discussion on the composition of melodies for liturgical texts in English.

15 November 2014, Saturday, 7:30pm
"Petros the Peloponnesian: Portrait of a Musical Genius (Concert)"
The Greek Orthodox Archdiocesan Byzantine Choir offers a musical portrait of Petros the Peloponnesian (d. 1778), cantor in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople and widely regarded as teh greatest post-Byzantine ecclesiastical composesr.

"A Fasil for a Phanariot Beyzade (Concert)"
DUNYA recreates a recital that would have been enjoyed a Phanariot Beyzade (a Greek-Ottoman prince in nineteenth-century Istanbul.

Performances will take place in the Maliotis Cultural Center, Hellenic Center Holy Cross, 50 Goddard Avenue, Brookline, MA

Lectures and workshops will be held in the Archbishop Iakovos Library Reading Room, Hellenic College Holy Cross, 50 Goddard Avenue, Brookline, MA.

For more information, contact the Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture at Hellenic College-Holy Cross (School of Greek Orthodox Theology),
50 Goddard Ave., Brookline, MA 02445; tel. 617.850.1242; or email the center at mjcbac@hchc.edu ; purchase tickets at http://www.BostonByzantineMusic.org . For directions to the campus, visit: www.hchc.edu/about/contact/directions . Visitors can find a campus map at http://www.hchc.edu/tour/ .


Cappella Romana at King's College Chapel in London, UK,
performing at the 21st International Congress of Byzantine Studies (2006)



(Posting date 31 October 2014)

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