New Byzantium Publications Guestbook
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Name: Julia C.
Email:
jcbluesridgesinger@gmail.com
Comment: Hi. Thank
you for these resources, which I found today. I am just newly exploring
Orthodoxy, and, though I grew up with sung Liturgy, it was in a Lutheran Church,
so my ear has been trained in the Western musical style. I was trying to
understand the Tones.
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Name: Athena Gouios
Comment: Thank so
much for “Eis Pasa tin gein.” It was a hard Communion hymn to find. You made my
day.
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Name: Kathy Harris
Email: harris_kathyl@yahoo.com
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Name: Stehanous
Tanner
Email: stflaox@aol.com
Comment:
Thank you so much for all that you do. I have learned so much from
the study of your pages. You provide a remarkable asset for us faithful which
are far from the hub and cities.
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Name: Voula
Brown
Email: voula@garlic.com
Comment:
I’m the choir director for the Holy Trinity GO church in San
Francisco. I enjoy your music arrangements and will be trying a few for our
choir. Thank you.
Answer: You’re very
welcome, Voula. Let us know if you need anything
specifically for your church.
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Name: George Kafantaris
Email:
george@kafantaris.com
Comment: Great
website. I wish there was more audio to correspond with the music sheets and
articles.
Answer: George, I
want to and plan to add more audio to the site when I get the chance.
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Name: John Haydukovich
Email:
haydukovich@yahoo.com
Comment: Great
site ... I don’t have a good midi player - need mp3’s of each hymn. NEW to Greek Chant and Greek Liturgy.
Answer: MIDI files should play on any computer, at least.
If you need to convert MIDI files to MP3’s, there is a freeware program to do
this at:
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Name: Gregory Latoja, Jr.
Email: gregory_latoja@yahoo.com
Comment:
Great website! Great job!
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Name: Richard
England
Email:
rkengland@salisbury.edu
Comment: As a
convert, I find your collection of hymns extremely useful, especially when I
have to direct the choir here in Ocean City MD! Thank you!
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Name: Tony Vatousios
Email:
antoniosvatousios@danvers.org
Comment: Thank you
for this site. It has helped me on a short notice find
stuff. I am a choir director and psaltis in Peabody,
Massachusetts.
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Name: Dimosthenis Kouskoukis
Email:
dimokous@gmail.com
Comment: I chant
in Thessaloniki, and I found your site really
interesting. Congratulations.
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Name: James Raptis
Email:
raptis@centurylink.net
Comment: Dear Stan
and Nancy: Thanks to our priests using your texts for Lenten services I have
also now discovered a wealth of information for learning to chant. May Gods
grace continue to shower your efforts for His glory.
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Name: Renee Root
Email:
reneeroot@cox.net
Comment: Hello,
Nancy. Vicki Pappas directed me to your website. My Youth Choir is doing a
project to learn about/ research their baptismal saints/feasts, and I found some
Apolitikia I needed on your site. However, I am still
in need of the hymns for St. Christina
Answer: The apolytikion for St. Christina is the one for female
martyrs, which can now be found on newbyz.org under the saints section.
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Name: Alan T Chaddon
Email:
achaddon@bellsouth.net
Comment: It is
terrific to see this music here. I am a convert singing in Holy Trinity GOC
church choir in Orlando, FL. I love the music and want to help our church do
the right music during Holy Week especially. It is good to see these versions
here.
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Name: Seraphima
Email:
SShagoury@gmail.com
Comment: Dear Stan
- thank you for your hard work in compilingg all this information in English
form. I dispute with you, however, the use of the term first class second class
and third class Feasts, however; I would like to see this expression modified
or corrected.
Answer: I got
this information from the Orthodox Wiki, so I guess
it could be a matter of some debate. I’ll consult my priest.
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Name: Dr. Abert G. Fadell
Email: alfa4u@verizon.net
Comment: I am
trying to e-mail a letter to you, but I get a message that the recipient cannot
be found. Can you send me you current e-mail address. I used
takistan@yahoo.com.
Answer: That’s the correct address. Please try again.
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Name: Peg Basile
Email:
backhousepress@juno.com
Comment: I’m
looking for O mitran parthenikin,
the Kontakion for Jan 16, 23, & Feb 6th. Thanks,
Peg
Answer: Look on newbyz.org under February 2 – The
Presentation of Christ in the Temple.
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Name: Matthew
Email:
panayotopoulos@hotmail.com
Comment: Hi, great
work Would you be able to post the Byzantine music for ÅõëïãÞóù Ôïí Êýñéïí and Åõëüãåé ç øõ÷Þ ìïõ, ôïí
Êýñéïí psalm
33 and 102 and 135 Greek much appreciated. Keep it up
Answer: Ι
hope we will be able to put up some Greek Psalms in the near future. If you
mean in Byzantine notation, we have decided to limit our site to using staff
notation, as this is less available, and yet more universally understood.
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Name: Dena Platingos
Email:
dplatingos@yahoo.com
Comment: I really
enjoy listening to and chanting Byzantine music.
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Name: Peter
Brooke
Email: pbrooke@phonecoop.coop
Comment: I’m just
amazed at what you’re doing. I’m several steps short of becoming a beginner in
this field (necessity through involvement in a small parish in Wales) but as
the cartoonist R. Crumb would put it: Dis is de
stuff.
Reply: Yowsuh!
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Name: Stephanie
Wolff
Email: Stephaniaberlin@t-online.de
Comment: Thank you
for your interesting and helpful work. I am an Orthodox German living in Mexico
City and singing in the Greek Church. In Christ, Stephanie Wolff
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Name: Fr. John Maheras
Email:
vze3wpw9@gmail.com
Comment: Dear
Cousin, Fr. John Maheras here. Do you by any chance
have or know where I can find the Doxology in Plagal
Fourth? Plus, a grammatical observation. Is it Plagal or Plagial? I have seen it
both ways.
Answer: Plagal is correct. Papa Ephraim has the Plagal
Fourth Doxology on the St. Anthony’s Monastery website. I will be putting up a
version by Nancy in the future.
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Name: Rina Grosso
Email:
grosso9396@optimum.net
Comment: Enjoyed
speaking to you on the 14th. Looking forward to meeting you
and Nancy in November. Enjoyed your lecture on the
computer. Best regards, Rina
Answer: Thanks, Rina. We had a
lot of fun in Connecticut and met some wonderful people. You have a lovely
voice.
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Name: Nikolaos Melikidze
Email: tbroladze@rambler.ru
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Name: Andrew
White
Email:
awhite58@verizon.net
Comment: It was very
flattering to find a reference to my dissertation on your site -- glad you
found it worth reading. And the resources you’ve assembled here are wonderful!
I look forward to using them.
Best
wishes -- Andy
P.S.
-- If there is interest in a talk based on my work I’d be happy to arrange one,
so keep it in mind.
Answer: Thanks, Andy, and thank you for an excellent
thesis. Would love to see the National Forum arrange a talk
at a Church Music Institute. I will suggest it to Vicki Pappas.
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Name: Jon
Gillespie
Email:
jon_gillespie@sweetwater.com
Comment: I am
working on a musical project, which includes an album of Greek Orthodox chant.
It has not been released yet, however, as I develop the web site and prepare
for release, I was hoping you might find it an interesting way to promote this
wonderful music.
Answer: Please keep
me posted, Jon. My email is takistan@yahoo.com.
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Name: Gregory
Email:
pilcher@suddenlinkmail.com
Comment: Good site!
Glad I found it. Do you have a setting in 4 parts of Let my prayer arise as
incense?
Answer: We have Kyrie Ekekraxa from Vespers in
each of the eight tones in Greek and English, but none in four parts.
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Name: Fr. John Bociu
Comment: Thank you
for such a great effort and for a wonderful, excellent, well done job. God
bless you, your work and your family.
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Name: Melissa
Comment: Thank you
for your page. As a novice chanter, I can tell you I need as much help as time
allows.
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Name: Father Bob
Email:
Padrerta@aol.com
Comments: Great
Website! Much information and lots of music not available
elsewhere. When I tried to access the guestbook via Foxfire it did not
connect. When I accessed the guestbook from AOL I was able to connect.
Answer: I think the problem has been fixed and was not
caused by which browser one uses. I think you connected on AOL after I fixed
the problem.
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Name: Vangeli Avgerinos
Email:
aavgerinos80@yahoo.com
Comments: Excellent
site!!!
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Name: leanna sterios-primiani
Email:
lprimiani@gmail.com
Comments: Great
site! I’ve been looking everywhere for this info. and
am thrilled to find it! I have a question for you: I’m looking for either the
written music (modern notation) for the baptism service and/or a recording.
Does that exist? Thanks!
Answer: Thanks, Leanna. I will
try to get the baptism music for you soon. I’ll send an email.
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Name: Mackie JV
Blanton
Email:
buyurun7@yahoo.com
Comments: MAY GOD
GRANT YOU MANY YEARS
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Name: Martha Roldan
Email:
keltyroldan@msn.com
Comments: Hello
Nancy, Last week I visited the monastery, spent 2 days sewing, stayed with Fr.
Dennis and Pres. Joan. Thanks for the MIDI and pdf
files in preparation for the coming feast days. Hoping to see you soon, Martha
(from Annunciation Church in Muskegon)
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Name: Michael
Foster
Comments: Thank you
for all the effort in putting this together. It’s so helpful. God Bless.
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Name: Angelo Lampousis
Comments: Dear Nancy
and Stan, The very active Fr. Christopher Metropulos
of Orthodox Christian Network introduced a new pod-cast series in collaboration
with Cosmos FM and the Axion Estin
Foundation. Check the (top) news at the Axion Estin homepage: http://www.axionestin.org
Answer: Thanks, Angelo, for all the hard work you put in
on these things.
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Name: Fr.
Gregory Hohnholt
Email:
fathergh@gmail.com
Comments: Fr. Stavros from Chattanouga, TN
referred me. Nice web site.
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Name: Dr. Peter Jermihov
Email:
pjermiho@triton.edu
Comments: I am a
trained musician/conductor who has directed Russian Orthodox Church music for a
long time. Now, I am serving as a choir director in a Greek Orthodox Church.
Your website is wonderful and so, so helpful! Thank you! Reader Peter
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Name: Thespina Macres
Email:
choirdirectorz@comcast.net
Comments: Thank you,
thank you, needed hymns for Holy Sat AM - high school chant group. PERFECT!!
Blessed Triodion!
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Name: Stavrula Crafa
Email:
stavrula@crafa.com
Comments: Great
site. But I’m trying to find English music for the hymn for St. Stefanos. Can anyone help me? Thank you.
Answer: We do not have it here yet, but you can find one HERE.
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Name: philip xavier
Comments: Great
work!! May God Almighty continue to bless your ministry.
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Name: Emanuel Creekus
Email:
mcreekus@mindspring.com
Comments: At a
community Christmas concert, your arrangements were a big hit! Will send you a message through your Yahoo club.
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Name: Christine Kerxhalli
Email:
kerxhalli@aol.com
Comments: I can’t
tell you how helpful your website has been to me. I am the A Cappella Choir
Director at the Annunciation in Rochester, New York and I use Nancy’s
Three-Part Harmony and New Byzantine Chant Divine Liturgy along with all your
other music availability.
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Name: Dennis
Email:
Dengreek@aol.com
Comments: Just
became aware of your site. What a great resource! I really appreciate the midi
files too. Keep up the terrific work!
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Name: Nikolaos
Email:
Nikoinwinnipeg@msn.com
Comments: Very great
source of information and chanting material that would otherwise cost lots of
money. I have been using your text in our church since Easter. Thank you!
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Name: Laura
Email:
hotshotsli@optonline.net
Comments: What a
beautiful & helpful site. I’ve been looking for the Lord’s Prayer
transliteration and found the entire Liturgy transliterated! Thank You!
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Name: Rdr. John Paise
Email:
chefjohnp@hotmail.com
Comments: Great
Site! Gleaning lots of information. Keep up the great
work.
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Name: Fr. Anastasios Gounaris
Email:
father@holytrinityindy.org
Comments: Dear Nancy
and Stan, This site is a treasure trove. May God bless and keep you both so
that you may continue performing this invaluable service for our Church. May
you have a meaningful Holy Week and a joyful Pascha. Fr. Taso Gounaris
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Name: J. Johnson
Email: abcmom3@cox.net
Comments: Thank-you,
thank-you for this website! YOU are AMAZING! It is FABULOUS! Everything I could
ask for. :) Joanne Johnson Director, Sunday School
Choir, St. George, Bethesda, MD.
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Name: George Lopos
Email:
glopos@bellsouth.net
Comments: Is anyone
publishing Roubanis typeset in both Greek and
English? The manuscripts are quaint, but they are difficult to follow, and
especially if the singer doesn’t read Greek. Resetting them and translating it
would be a great contribution to the choir.
Answer: It’s on our “to do” list, but at 300 pages, it’s a
daunting task, especially a translation.
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Name: Fotini Yiangou
Email:
FrancesTGiagkou@aol.com
Comments: Good site .. pretty informative .. need more time to check it out more. Thank You. Ciao, Fotini
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Name: Lisette
Comments: Thank you.
Very enthusiastic about this special site.
Congratulations!
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Name: Diane Trimis
Email:
dtrimis@hotmail.com
Comments: Very
informative. I got to the site via the SE choir federation. Your site has been
saved as a favorite. As a convert, the more I learn, the more I know that I
don’t know. Thanks.
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Name: George Manos
Email:
alex5154@aol.com
Comments: Thank you
for a super effort. George Manos, Music Director, St. John the Theologian
Cathedral, Tenafly, NJ
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Name: Joanne
Johnson
Email:
abcmom3@cox.net
Comments: Junior
Choir director, St. George, Bethesda, MD. THANK-YOU FOR THIS SITE!!!!!
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Name: Terry Kastanis
Email:
tkastanis@comcast.net
Comments: Just made
copies of your new Divine Liturgy, Greek and English. You both did a wonderful
job in pulling all this info. together in one volume.
Thank you very much. The Forum should adopt it in total and quit this Oli Mazi stuff. Regards, Terry
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Name: Jan Adrian
Email:
jan.adrian@sbcglobal.net
Comments: Just
checking through my e-mail after the convention and saw Vicki’s note about you
and Nancy with your Website. So
I am checking it out - you did a great job. Again congratulations to both of
you on your award Saturday evening. Jan
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Name: Suzy Balasis
Email:
frazzledlib@gmail.com
Comments: I’ve just
begun exploring your website, but I’m very impressed at what I’ve seen so far.
Thank you for this contribution to the hymnology and practice of such in the
Orthodox Church is America.
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Name: Scott
Harrington
Email:
scotthster@gmail.com
Comments: Dear
friend, I am new to Orthodoxy: prayer, etc. There is a lot to learn that is
new, such as the Ochtoechos, Book of Eight Tones.
Which English edition of this book would you recommend for someone new to
learning Orthodox Church hymns? Always, Scott Harrington
Answer: If you just need an English translation, you can
find one at: http://anastasis.org.uk/oktoich.htm
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Name: Steffi Tassos
Email:
Steffi@KeepSafeMusic.com
Comments: Kali spera! I am a professional singer and have been chanting
for about 1 year now. My background is in popular music - in particular,
Gospel, R&B, and Country - so you can imagine the challenges I face in
trying to adapt my sound to the Byzantine style.
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Name: Timothy
Douglas Alvey
Email:
alveydoug@hotmail.com
Comments: A great
resource you’ve got going here. I was referred by the St. Anthony’s site when
looking for a source for David Melling’s work. I was
a student at the recent Koukouzelis Institute
(organized by John Michael Boyer) where Fr. Ephraim (Lash) told me of Mr. Melling’s book.
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Name: Archpriest
Lawrence
Email:
lansingmelkite@aol.com
Comments: XPICTOC
ANECTI! Very nice site. It was a pleasure to meet you at our food festival.
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Name: Fr. Elias Drossos
Email:
frelia@bellnet.ca
Comments: What
wonderful work!! A great source of information for those who
wish to gain a deeper understanding and appreciation for Byzantine Music.
Panta Axios!!
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Name: Jim Vardakis
Email:
ejv730@aol.com
Comments: I just
opened your website through Vicki. It is very interesting. I will look further
into it and let you know.
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Name: Presvytera Pat Tsagalakis
Email:
p.tsagalakis@comcast.net
Comments: Nancy,
Thank you so much for all of us at Holy Apostles in Shoreline, WA. This morning
our choir sang your arrangement with great joy Let all Mortal Flesh - the
entire congregation was singing with us as it matched our Holy Week book
translation. THANK YOU!
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Name: George Mazarakis
Email:
george@carteblanche.co.za
Comments:
Congratulations on your invaluable work and thank you so very much! I
run a small choir in Johannesburg, South Africa at the Chapel of the Greek
School, SAHETI. MANY, MANY THANKS!
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Name: Joanne
Patrick
Email:
gabep@ptd.net
Comments: Thank you
for your website. I am choir director of Holy Spirit OCA in Wantage,
NJ. A most joyous Pascha to you! JP
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Name: Christina
Comments:
Beautifully done.
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Name: Vivi
Email: vivi_astefanei
Comments: Buna Ziua! Este foarte
frumos si de buna calitate ceea
ce am gasit ca informatie pe acest
sitte ,
ma bucur si sper sa afle
si altii despre dumneavoastra. Cu respect
din Romania, Kassia
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Name: Najeeb Haddad
Email:
phati129@yahoo.com
Comments: It’s a
great relief to find all these texts! God bless you.
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Name: Lara Willingham
Email:
larawillingham@yahoo.com
Comments: Thank you
so much for publishing our beautiful Orthodox hymns with English texts and
Western notation! I am an American musician who converted to Orthodoxy 10 years
ago. I enjoyed singing the beautiful hymns in the choir with our accomplished
well-trained director.
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Name: Diana Ott
Email:
dianaott@juno.com
Comments: Dear Nancy
and Stan, Thanks for all the work you do on this web site; it is an invaluable
resource for Orthodox musicians. Nancy, you truly have an amazing gift; your
settings of hymns in English never fail to be graceful and natural.
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Name: Artemis Palios
Email:
jpalios1@tampabay.rr.com
Comments: Dear
Nancy, I enjoyed meeting you and Stanley in Milwaukee and enjoyed your
workshops too. I plan to use some of your arrangements with my choir—they’re
wonderful.
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Name: George Dalagelis
Email:
eleos3@verizon.net
Comments: Dear Stan
& Nancy: It was nice meeting and chating with you
in Nashville. I have been using your material quite often and I am grateful for
the bilingual pieces. Any chance of having a complete Liturgy
in Byzantine Chant First / Plagal First Tone (D
minor)?
Answer: The Plagal First liturgy
is now on the website.
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Name: Stephen
Reynolds
Email:
stephen_r1937@yahoo.com
Comments: Stan,
there is a lot of fine stuff here--thanks! I’m looking at your Name That Tone
essay, which I want to hand out to our parish group that is learning Byzantine
notation.
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Name: Stole
Email:
mlsvk@yahoo.com
Comments: Brothers,
my name is Stole. I am psalt. I love very much
Byzantine music and I want a CD from this company. I am poor man. I not have
money. GOD WITH YOU.
Answer: We have not yet produced a CD of the music here.
Please refer to our MP3 page for free sound recording downloads.
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Name: Cathy
Email:
cathtwlight@wol.co.za
Comments: We are a
poor seminary in Johannesburg that deals with street children, the poor and the
homeless. Thank you for this wonderful source of translated Greek into English
for us to learn. St. Raphael Seminary. Our priest is
Father Athanasi Akunda.
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Name: George
Black
Email:
jorhay1@yahoo.com
Comments: Glory to God
for all things! Dear Mr. Takis, Just a little note of
appreciation and thanks for you and your family’s hard work on this beautiful
and informative web site. I also value and have learned much from you and your
input on the yahoo chant forums.
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Name: Michael Khoury
Email:
michael.khoury@usa.net
Comments: Stan, I
saw the reference to your site and some of your posts on the PSALM list. While
I belong to an American parish in Detroit, I am interested in learning about
the chant form and will visit. Michael
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Name: Volkert Nicholas Volkersz
Comments: Stan, Thanks for all the help and information you’ve
provided me as I begin to embrace Byzantine music. And thanks for the
stimulating discussion you provide on the PSALM list.
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Name: George Tzougros
Comments: Thank you
for this wonderful resource! The choir here in Madison, Wisconsin loves your Enite that combines both Greek and English. I found it here
on your site! Again, thank you.