[Magdalen] Christ is risen!

[Joseph Cirou]

I believe the Billings Easter Anthem would be a perfectly appropriate "kontsiert" at the Divine Liturgy. It is a bit exuberant, it could be a companion piece to the Folk-Lore Galician Christos Voskres--the two are in the same spirit. How about an Eastern Sacred Harp with the Mennonites learning (or remembering) the Ukrainian item I just mentioned and some Carpatho Rusyn Americans learning the Billings. The Eastern church has an a capella tradition. It does not have to be all Slavic, or southern European!

  The "Kontsiert" is a choral anthem sung during the Priest's Communion before the distribution. Borniansky wrote his "Sacred Concerto's" for this occasion. They are often in sonata-allegro form.  Some have objected that they may be too theatrical-- the singing of psalms vss with the Communion verse is also used at this time. Moving the Kontsiert to a choral postlude sounds like a good compromise. 

Joe

-----Original Message-----
>From: "P. Dan Brittain" <pdan.brittain at gmail.com>
>Sent: May 2, 2016 11:10 AM
>To: magdalen at herberthouse.org
>Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Christ is risen!
>
>On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 7:44 AM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Last night at the Harmonia Sacra singing, I mentioned that it was Easter
>> for Orthodox Christians and the leader said immediately that we must of
>> course sing 379, which is Billings' Easter Anthem
>>
>
>Glad to hear it!
>
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