This was posted on the typicon list by a Mark Baily. Since I don't see it here, I thought some of you might be interested.
Dear Church Music Composers and Arrangers (and Typikon list members at large),
I'm hoping many of you are still considering coming to this year's Composers Seminar at St. Vladimir's Seminary, June 25-28. In fact,you can get a discount off of tuition by signing-up before June 11. Registration is simple through our new online system.
This year's faculty includes specialists who will discuss all kinds of things to illuminate the process of composing and arranging music for worship. Topics include the form and role of Biblical canticles as sung components of worship, early Slavonic translations of Byzantine texts and the implications for liturgical musicians today, meaning and explanation in human ritual through music, and the elements of good liturgical music composition.
In addition, we will have discussion groups and workshops to examine and practice various skills more closely, as well as tutorials where each participant will be able to get faculty guidance and feedback.
Those of you who received the latest issue of PSALM Notes probably noticed in it a wonderful new setting of St. Simeon's Prayer by Juliana Hughes -- settings like this were the result of our work together at last year's seminar.
For more information and to register, please go to:
http://www.svots. edu/News/ Upcoming/ 2008-0625- composersseminar
