A Sacrifice of Praise

Papa Ephraim has composed a huge body of hymns for Vespers, Matins, and the Divine Liturgy and made them freely availabl... Read more

Richard and Amy discuss early Byzantine chant projects in English beginning in the 70’s with Basil Kazan’s Divine Music ... Read more

Papa Ephraim continues his story, telling us how his composition process changed when he began composing hymns for Vespe... Read more

Amy, Richard, and in-studio guest Peter George of St. Mark’s Greek Orthodox Cathedral in Boston and the ensemble Psaltik... Read more

Beginning in the early 2000s, a shift in Byzantine chant in English began to be noticeable. Join Amy and Richard as they... Read more

Amy Hogg and Richard Barrett talk with Gabriel Cremeens, one of the more prolific of the current generation of cantors a... Read more

Amy Hogg and Richard Barrett offer an introduction to the service of Vespers, discussing its structure, its moving parts... Read more

In this excerpt from a series of lessons developed for Byzantine Beginnings, Amy Hogg teaches the scale degrees in ascen... Read more

Amy and Richard continue talking to composer and cantor Gabriel Cremeens about the exceptional musical situation at his ... Read more

In July of 2018, at the Antiochian Archdiocese’s Sacred Music Institute, Deacon John El Massih, the protopsaltis of the ... Read more

Amy and Richard continue their conversation about the order of Sunday Matins with cantor Peter George. In part 2 of 3, t... Read more

Amy and Richard wrap up their conversation about the order of Sunday Matins with Boston cantor Peter George. They pick u... Read more

Solfege is a familiar concept to many of us thanks to the famous song “Do-Re-Mi” from The Sound of Music; it’s the pract... Read more

Part 1 of 2. Recorded live at Εὐφράνθην! I Was Glad!, a liturgical symposium held at St. George Greek Orthodox Church in... Read more

Amy Hogg and Richard Barrett speak with Fr. Seraphim Dedes, a translator of liturgical texts and a composer of English-l... Read more

Greek-American Nicholas Roumas has the distinction of being the composer of the very first library-quality book of Engli... Read more

Amy Hogg and Richard Barrett continue their conversation with cantor and composer Samuel Herron, who talks more about hi... Read more

This is the third part of Deacon John El Massih’s talk on Vespers from the 2018 Sacred Music Institute. Deacon John used... Read more

This is the second part of Deacon John El Massih’s talk on Vespers from the 2018 Sacred Music Institute. Deacon John use... Read more

Amy and Richard talk to composer, cantor, and teacher Dr. Jessica Suchy-Pilalis. Dr. Suchy-Pilalis reflects on four deca... Read more