Sacred Art Sacred Music

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1 An Exhibit of 18 th & 19 th C. Russian Orthodox Icons Sacred Art Sacred Music March 1 st -3 rd St. Jonah Orthodox Church saintjonah.org or A Concert of Orthodox Christian Liturgical Music & Guest Presentations Ethnic Foods, Pastries & Beverage for sale. Admission is open to the public & free of charge.

2 Exhibition Schedule Sacred Art Sacred Music Friday March 1 st 3pm 9pm Saturday March 2 nd 11am 5pm Sunday March 3 rd 12pm 5pm Bookstore open during these hours. About the Exhibit Come see more than 50 icons depicting Christ, the Virgin Mary, saints from all times, images large and small. Altogether each icon represents a cross section of the traditional Russian Iconographic Schools: all revealing the fullness of the Orthodox faith. These will include new icons previously not displayed. The theme of this year s exhibit, Sacred Art Sacred Music, emphasizes the collaboration of the icon, with the hymns and musical heritage of the Orthodox Church. This collaboration underscores that icons are not independent works of art but art of the Church raised to another level. The creative and seamless work of church artisans -writers of hymns, music and icons- is a unified, creative and inspired effort of the Holy Spirit. Through sight, sound, and word their message is canonized, raised to reveal a right participation in the timeless salvation of the incarnate Word of God. Therefore, the task of sacred art, through image, word and music, is to proclaim the living tradition of Christianity which so characterizes the Orthodox Church and our salvation.

3 Guest Speakers Schedule Sacred Art Sacred Music The V. Rev. Archimandrite Luke Friday March 1 st 7:30pm Saturday March 2 nd 11am Kurt Sanders Saturday March 2 nd 2pm Sunday March 3 rd 3:30pm Kurt Sander Associate Professor of Music Theory and Composition and Music Department Chair at Northern Kentucky University. The V. Rev. Archimandrite Luke Abbot of Holy Trinity Monastery Rector and Dean of Holy Trinity Seminary Jordanville, New York

4 Liturgical Choral Concert Schedule Sacred Art Sacred Music St. Jonah s Orthodox Church Choir under the direction of Demetra Short requests the honor of your presence at this first extended and free, Public Choral Performance Sunday March 3rd 3:30pm About Our Director Demetra is a graduate of Concordia College and St. Vladimir s Orthodox Theological Seminary with a Master of Divinity degree, cum laude, and certificate of Liturgical Music. She received special commendation for her graduate thesis, A Manual For Teaching Children Church Music, which is accessible through the seminary or Theological Research Exchange Network : e-docs.

5 A Biographical Sketch of The V. Rev. Luke Murianka The Sixth Abbot of Holy Trinity Orthodox Monastery, Rector and Dean of Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary Jordanville, New York The future Archimandrite Luke was born November 10 th, 1951 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His emigrant parents, Peter and Olga Murianka, raised him in the Orthodox Church from infancy. He received the name of the Holy Apostle Mark in baptism and faithfully attended the Orthodox Church of St. Michael the Archangel in Philadelphia. He became acquainted with Holy Trinity Monastery while a student at Hartwick College. Upon acceptance and arrival at Holy Trinity Seminary, he petitioned to become a novice in the Monastery. This was granted to him on the feast of St. Moses the Hungarian, whose true ethnicity was also Carpatho-Russian. Archbishop and later Metropolitan Laurus, of blessed repose, and also of Carpatho-Russian descent, received Mark as a novice. As a novice he was given obediences in the garden by Fr. Hermogen, in the bookbindery, and later in the icon studio with the resident iconographer Archimandrite Cyprian, his first spiritual father. Fr. Luke attributes his monastic formation to Fr. Hermogen with a gratitude prevailing to this day. This current monastery abbot, seminary rector and dean, has received Synodal and administrative appointments once carried out by notable predecessors, of blessed repose Metropolitan Laurus, the First Hierarch of the Russian Church Abroad Metropolitan Hilarion, and the previous dean of Holy Trinity Seminary Evgenii Iosifovich Klar. Currently teaching Patrology, he also writes articles on theology and literature. Most notable however is Fr. Luke s increased involvement in English language publishing in the Monastery s St. Job of Pochaev Press. (See

6 Kurt is currently associate professor of music theory and composition and department chair at Northern Kentucky University. He has spent the majority of his professional career performing, conducting, researching and composing choral music for the Orthodox Church. His work has been recently featured in the CD As Far As the East is from the West: New Orthodox Choral Music of Gennadi Lapaev and Kurt Sander conducted by Peter Jermihov with distribution throughout the U.S. and abroad. His liturgical music has been featured in the CREDO International Festival of Orthodox Music in Tallin, Estonia, on Ancient Faith Radio, and performed by groups such as Capella Romana, the Orthodox Singers, Scola Cantorum of St. Peter of Chains in Chicago, and the Contata Singers in Ottawa. A frequent presenter at conferences, he has given presentations on the aesthetics of Orthodox choral music as well as the music of Alexander Kastalsky and Arvo Pärt. He holds degrees in music composition from Northwestern University, Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, and Cleveland State University. He is both a graduate and resident theory professor at the Summer School of Liturgical Music at the Holy Trinity Orthodox Monastery in Jordanville, New York, and currently music director at St. George Russian Orthodox Church in Cincinnati, Ohio.

7 Books, CD s and more available Sacred Art Sacred Music March 1 st 3 rd St. Jonah s Bookstore will carry a special selection of merchandise just for this weekend from the publishers listed above. The bookstore will also be open throughout the entire weekend, but closed during presentations and the liturgical choral concert.