OK, so I just realized we never published a wrap-up of the 2018 summer school for cantors (July 23-27) – here it is!<\/p>\n
The first two days were for our new cantors only. We covered the basics of singing:<\/p>\n
For the first time, we were able to video-record each lesson by our voice teacher, Shawn Daly, and match them up to the printed materials we use for the online class.<\/p>\n
Every day also included voice lessons for each student, and the celebration of Compline. On Tuesday evening, we started on the basics of leading<\/em> chant instead of just singing it.<\/p>\n This was the hinge day in the week: the last day for the beginning students, and the first day for the advanced students, with shared classes between the two groups.\u00a0 We opened with the Divine Liturgy and breakfast, then covered:<\/p>\n After Vespers, we had supper together at a local restaurant, and said good-bye to the beginning students.<\/p>\n These two days were for current serving cantors. Classes included:<\/p>\n We also celebrated Great Vespers for the feast of St. Pantaleimon.<\/p>\n We had a total of seven students, and look forward to having more next year!\u00a0 Many thanks to Saints Cyril and Methodius Byzantine Catholic Seminary in Pittsburgh for accommodating the program; it was particularly good to be able to accommodate both male and female students in private rooms at the seminary throughout the week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" OK, so I just realized we never published a wrap-up of the 2018 summer school for cantors (July 23-27) – here it is! Monday and Tuesday The first two days were for our new cantors only. We covered the basics of singing: The role of the cantor The basics of musical sound First steps in … Continue reading “MCI Summer School 2018”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","filesize_raw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1048"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1051,"href":"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048\/revisions\/1051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Wednesday<\/h3>\n
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