{"id":829,"date":"2016-12-26T17:58:05","date_gmt":"2016-12-26T22:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/?p=829"},"modified":"2017-01-16T22:26:28","modified_gmt":"2017-01-17T03:26:28","slug":"professors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/professors\/","title":{"rendered":"YOUR HELP REQUESTED: Remembering our professors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For many years, cantors who received comprehensive cantorial training in Europe were known in this country as &#8220;professors.&#8221; These men led church singing, taught religion classes, directed plays, and often organized church services when clergy were scarce. Over time, other particularly influential cantors were also called by the title, &#8220;Professor.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In order to better preserve and foster our chant tradition, the Metropolitan Cantor Institute has been working with the Byzantine Catholic Seminary in Pittsburgh to collect information about these important leaders in our church. <strong>Now we are turning to you for assistance.<\/strong> We are particularly interested in the following cantors:<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Peter Babey<\/li>\n<li>Joseph Barron, and other cantors in the Barron family<\/li>\n<li>Michael Demyan<\/li>\n<li>Julius Dobra<\/li>\n<li>John T. Dzurisin and Paul Dzurisin<\/li>\n<li>Gabriel Flintosh<\/li>\n<li>Andrew Hleba<\/li>\n<li>John Horvath<\/li>\n<li>Michael Hrebin, Sr.<\/li>\n<li>George Hress<\/li>\n<li>John Jaroscak<\/li>\n<li>George I. Kacan<\/li>\n<li>John Kahanick<\/li>\n<li>Nicholas Kalvin<\/li>\n<li>Basil Karol<\/li>\n<li>John Katchen<\/li>\n<li>Daniel J. Kavka<\/li>\n<li>Peter Korpos<\/li>\n<li>George Kostraba<\/li>\n<li>Joseph Kotch<\/li>\n<li>John Lessler<\/li>\n<li>Stephen Levkulich<\/li>\n<li>John Maceyko<\/li>\n<li>John Mitchell<\/li>\n<li>John Molnar<\/li>\n<li>Andrew M. Morros (or Morris)<\/li>\n<li>I. J. Palazey<\/li>\n<li>George Parvenski<\/li>\n<li>Andrew J. Parvensky, Sr.<\/li>\n<li>George, John, Michael, and Stephen Pauley<\/li>\n<li>John Petach<\/li>\n<li>Andrew Petrin<\/li>\n<li>Michael Petzko<\/li>\n<li>Theodore, Joachim, and Anthony Ratzin<\/li>\n<li>George Sabol<\/li>\n<li>Basil Sarady<\/li>\n<li>John Alexander Saxun<\/li>\n<li>Emil Simodejka<\/li>\n<li>Michael Stinich<\/li>\n<li>Alex and George Suchan<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Prof. Suhunyak&#8221; (Pleasant City, OH)<\/li>\n<li>Michael Vuksta<\/li>\n<li>John Wischak<\/li>\n<li>Paul Yatsko<\/li>\n<li>Michael G. Zaretsky<\/li>\n<li>Peter Zeleznock (Zelezznak) (Zelezniak)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The MCI can provide some basic information about each, usually from published obituaries. We are looking for information about where and when each of these individuals learned church music; where they served as cantors; documents, photographs or recordings, if any exist, and (most importantly) personal remembrances of their work as cantors. In the case of cantors who also composed or arranged church music, we would like to assemble either a complete or representative sample of their work.<\/p>\n<p>The collected information will be used to document the history of our church singing, foster our plain chant and choral singing, and honor our cantor forebears.\u00a0 It will also be shared with the parishes where these cantors served.\u00a0 We are also investigating the possibility of a joint project with the Greek Catholic Union to make this information more widely available.<\/p>\n<p>If you can contribute to this project in any way, please contact Deacon Jeffrey Mierzejewski at plainchanter@gmail.com, or by calling (412) 735-1676. Watch the MCI website and Byzantine Catholic Seminary website for updates.<\/p>\n<p>If you know of European-trained or influential cantors from before 1945 who are not on this list, please contact us as well! (A later list will concentrate on cantors from the post-World War II generation.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For many years, cantors who received comprehensive cantorial training in Europe were known in this country as &#8220;professors.&#8221; These men led church singing, taught religion classes, directed plays, and often organized church services when clergy were scarce. Over time, other particularly influential cantors were also called by the title, &#8220;Professor.&#8221; In order to better preserve &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/professors\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;YOUR HELP REQUESTED: Remembering our professors&#8221;<\/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":[7],"tags":[18,17],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829"}],"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=829"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":911,"href":"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829\/revisions\/911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}