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<\/a>So it is with great happiness that I can congratulate Mary Benedict<\/strong>, cantor of Saints Peter and Paul Byzantine Catholic Church in Erie, PA.\u00a0 Mary is the last<\/em> cantor to complete the “old” MCI program, having regularly driven to Pittsburgh to attend classes, and completing her final examination in 2019.<\/p>\nHere is a list of graduates of the Metropolitan Cantor Institute program. As we move from occasional classroom courses to online, year-round education for cantors, I would like to recognize all those cantors and cantor-students who traveled to the Byzantine Catholic Seminary throughout the fall, winter, and spring to learn the art of church singing and chant leadership.<\/p>\n
2005\u00a0 \/ 2006 2007 2008 2011 2016 2019 (and if you know anyone who should be on this list but isn’t, please add their name below in the comments!)<\/p>\n Finally, I would like to thank J. Michael Thompson, first director of the MCI, who put together this multiyear program and saw it become a reality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" From 2001 to 2014, the Metropolitan Cantor Institute held Saturday chant classes in Pittsburgh, covering a different topic at each class.\u00a0 Over a multi-year rotation, cantors learned\u00a0 necessary skills, and received a certificate for finishing the full course of study.\u00a0 Eventually, we added an in-person “final exam” in the form of a cantored Divine Liturgy … Continue reading “Making the Grade: Final MCI graduate under the “old” program”<\/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":[15,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375"}],"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=1375"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1410,"href":"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375\/revisions\/1410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/strong>Marylyn Barone
\nDelcine Caddy
\nJohn Glegyak
\nThomas Marco
\nSharon Mech
\nGeorge Mihalick
\nStephen Petach
\nMary Caryl Planiczki
\nSteven Puluka
\nBarbara Sowko
\nHenry Zolyak<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Mary Frances Zadzilko
\nNicholas J. Nagrant
\nDiane Ryan Oravecz<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Jeff Mierzejewski
\nMichael Oravecz
\nAnn Pawluszka<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Saundra Frankowski
\nMarilyn Hertenstein<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Tom Rodack<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Mary Benedict<\/p>\n