Expéditeur: American Society of Byzantine Music & Hymnology <asbmh@...>
SECOND NOTICE: FROM THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF BYZANTINE MUSIC AND HYMNOLOGY
In preparation for the Second International Conference to be held in Athens in June of 2009, the Society and the co-organisers, are preparing an audiovisual album entitled "BYZANTINE CHOIRS OF THE HELLENIC DIASPORA". Canada and Europe will be represented by a number of Byzantine Choirs who have already confirmed participation.
The Society has requested participation from Byzantine choirs across the Hellenic Diaspora including Europe, Africa, the US and Australia, in communication with the Archdioceses and the Metropolises.
This communication serves as an auxiliary notification-request, the first has already been received by your hierarchs who have hopefully communicated it to you, to individuals and choirs who wish to participate in this historically unique and relevant album.
To be considered, choirs should select traditional Byzantine music material of a theme (and in a language) of their choice (duration no longer than one hour) and preferably recorded in live video-DVD format (i.e. choir should be visible; recorded in an empty church or other ecclesiastically-relevant place). Alternatively, audio is acceptable in CD form. The material should be new (and not from other published projects or previous copyrighted recordings).
Accompanying the audiovisual material should be a description of the choir and its history, a short bio of the director and a list of all current and past choristers.
As part of the Conference events, this album will be unveiled at an evening event attended by diplomats from embassies of the participants, musicians, musicologists, academics, writers, artists, poets, and other people of the Greek fine arts Diaspora.
When the Conference website is up, we also encourage a representative of each choir to register to attend the meeting to receive a plaque of recognition for their role in preserving and disseminating Byzantine music in the Diaspora.
The deadline to submit the materials is February 1st, 2009.
Please let us know as soon as possible about your intent to participate by email. Our website is currently under reconstruction, but should be up before the end of the month (www.asbmh.pitt.edu) with an electronic version of all papers of the 1st Conference, video of the speaker sessions of the 1st conference and a lot more useful information.
Please submit DVD/CD material and all accompanying letters to:
The American Society of Byzantine Music and Hymnology
c/o Dr. Nick Giannoukakis
Center for Russian & East European Studies
University Center for International Studies
4400 Wesley W. Posvar Hall
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
USA
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