Washington, DC: The Holy
Myrrhbearers Diocesan Women’s Choir adorned the divine services in
St. John the Baptist Cathedral
May
26, 2011
In the joyous Paschal days celebrating the holy Myrrhbearing
Women, at the invitation and with the blessing of the rector,
Archpriest Victor Potapov, and at the initiative of the choir’s
longtime friend Sergey Olhovsky, members of the Holy Myrrhbearers
Diocesan Women’s Choir, headed by director Eugenia Temidis,
arrived at St. John the Baptist Cathedral in Washington, DC, to
mark their patronal feast day at the divine services in honor of
their heavenly patronesses.
New
York: Holy Myrrhbearers Diocesan Women’s Choir is accepting new
members for its 14th musical season
September
13, 2010
The Holy
Myrrhbearers Diocesan Women’s Choir, under director and founder
Eugenia Temidis, opens its 14th musical season – singing Orthodox
liturgical a cappella treble choir music at divine services and
concerts in the NY metro area.
Ligonier,
PA: The Chairwoman of the EADMC represented ROCOR at the Summer Music
Institute of the Antiochian Archdiocese
August
11, 2010
With the blessing
of the First Hierarch of the Church Abroad, His Eminence, Metropolitan
Hilarion, Eastern American Diocesan Music Committee Chairwoman
Elizabeth A. Ledkovsky accepted an invitation from the Antiochian
Archdiocese’s music department to be the Russian Orthodox Church
Outside of Russia’s official representative at the 25th annual
Summer Music Institute (SMI) at the Antiochian Village Conference
Center in Ligonier in southwestern Pennsylvania.
Boston,
MA: Choristers of the Eastern American Diocese participated in the Rachmaninoff Music Festival
June
27,
2010
On Saturday the
19th and Sunday the 20th of June, parish singers and choir directors
of the Eastern American Diocese gathered in Boston, MA to participate
in the International S.V. Rachmaninoff Russian Music Festival, being
held June 13-20.
Washington,
DC: The first diocesan music conference was held at St. John the Baptist
Cathedral
June
4, 2010
From
Friday the 28th through Saturday the 29th of May, the Cathedral of St. John
the Baptist in Washington, DC, hosted the first interactive seminar for
church musicians, presented by the Eastern American Diocesan Music
Committee. Developed in response to a 2009 survey of the liturgical
musicians of the diocese...
Interview with members of the Eastern American Diocesan Music
Committee (EADMC)
June 4, 2010
On Saturday, May 29, on the last day of the church musician’s conference
in Washington, DC, diocesan Media Office correspondent Reader Peter Lukianov
conducted an interview with members of the Eastern American Diocesan Music
Committee (EAMDC) – Youri A. Petcherkin, choir conductor of St. John the
Baptist Cathedral in Washington, and Matushka Eugenia Temidis, conductor of
the Holy Myrrhbearers Women’s Choir.
Beltsville,
MD: "A Church Singer’s Companion" is being published in English
on the website of the Eastern American Diocese
May
27, 2010
We
would like to inform the readers of the diocesan site that, in the Eastern
American Diocesan Music Committee section of the website, "A
Church Singer’s Companion" is being published in English. Vocal
sheet music in English is being published by St. Romanos the Melodist
Society under the direction of Archpriest George Johnson, member of the
Diocesan Music Committee and rector of Holy Apostles Church in Beltsville,
MD.
Washington,
DC: An interview with Y.A. Petcherkin on Russian radio
May
17, 2010
On May 14, the
"Grad Petrov" ("Peter’s City") Orthodox radio
station in St. Petersburg, Russia, aired an interview with Mr. Youri
Petcherkin, the choir director of St. John the Baptist Cathedral’s
Slavonic choir. Click here
to listen to this Russian-language broadcast with excerpts of the
choir’s recordings.
Complete
collection of sheet music for the Great Feast of the Annunciation
March 25, 2010
The
E
AD
MC
is pleased to share music for the Great Feast of the Annunciation,
which coincides this year with Bright Wednesday, placing special
demands on church choirs. Several musicians have labored for many
hours to create and compile music scores in both Slavonic and English.
The
EADMC has also published new
sheet music in English
for the services of Passion Week, Pascha, and Annunciation.
March 6, 2010
The EADMC is pleased to offer parishes
a copy of the full
canon of the Great Feast of Annunciation, with troparia, in Slavonic, for use
at Matins of March 25/April 7, 2010. Because the feast falls this year
during Bright Week, it is proper to sing, and not read, all the
appointed texts.
November
9, 2009
New
York: Metropolitan Hilarion led the divine services, dedicated to the
memory of P.G. Chesnokov, in the Synodal Cathedral
September
7, 2009
Report from the
Chairperson of the EADMC to the Diocesan
Council
August
26, 2009
Announcement
from the Eastern American Diocesan Music Commission
July
9, 2009
Myrrhbearers. A unique choir in the Russian Diaspora.
Online
Survey is now available for
all Rectors and Choir Masters
May
3, 2009
Holy
Myrrhbearers Women’s Choir celebrates its 11th Annual
Patronal Feast
May
3, 2009
EADMC
holds its initial meeting in Jackson
April
25, 2009
Decree
of Met. Hilarion on the establishment of the EADMC
