{"id":986,"date":"2017-12-19T20:04:09","date_gmt":"2017-12-20T01:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/?p=986"},"modified":"2017-12-19T20:04:09","modified_gmt":"2017-12-20T01:04:09","slug":"new-mailing-list-for-cantors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/new-mailing-list-for-cantors\/","title":{"rendered":"New mailing list for cantors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For some 12 years now, the Metropolitan Cantor Institute has used a Yahoo-based mailing list to distribute monthly music mailings and send out announcements.\u00a0 Unfortunately, this service has been increasingly unreliable, and also lacks quite a few useful features of more modern mailing list software.<\/p>\n<p>So I have created a new mailing list, <b><a class=\"moz-txt-link-abbreviated\" href=\"mailto:cantors@groups.io\">cantors@groups.io<\/a><\/b>, which will provide BOTH news\/announcements and an open (moderated) forum discussion for cantors.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Current mcimusicfiles and MCI announcements will go out on this list, along with cantor education news from all four eparchies.<\/li>\n<li>You can use the mailing list to ask questions, seek assistance, share music, and raise topics for discussion.<\/li>\n<li>Eventually we will be adding the ability to upload and share files, and contribute to a wiki specifically for Byzantine Catholic cantors and church singers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To join the mail list,\u00a0 go to:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/groups.io\/g\/cantors\">https:\/\/groups.io\/g\/cantors<\/a>\u00a0 and subscribe to the new group using your preferred email address.<\/p>\n<p>If you wish to receive ONLY news and announcements, you can change your subscription options to &#8220;Special Notices Only.&#8221;\u00a0 You will still be able to view all discussion\u00a0 topics by pointing a Web browser to the group address, <a class=\"moz-txt-link-freetext\" href=\"https:\/\/groups.io\/g\/cantors\">https:\/\/groups.io\/g\/cantors<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>P.S. I am looking for a nice wide photograph to use as the banner for the cantors mailing list and the MCI blog.\u00a0 If you have a suitable one &#8211; particularly a photo of a singing congregation &#8211; please let me know!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For some 12 years now, the Metropolitan Cantor Institute has used a Yahoo-based mailing list to distribute monthly music mailings and send out announcements.\u00a0 Unfortunately, this service has been increasingly unreliable, and also lacks quite a few useful features of more modern mailing list software. So I have created a new mailing list, cantors@groups.io, which &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/new-mailing-list-for-cantors\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New mailing list for cantors&#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":[15,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986"}],"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=986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":987,"href":"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986\/revisions\/987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}