[MGSA-L] To attend in Boston: Musicology Lectures, November 13 & 14

[Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture]

Two musicology lectures will be presented in conjunction with the Boston
Byzantine Music Festival.

Friday, November 13, 2015, at 2:00pm: Ivan Moody, The Byzantine Octopus, or
the Ramifications of Musical Traditions
Composer, conductor, and musicologist Ivan Moody will present “The
Byzantine Octopus, or the Ramifications of Musical Traditions.” Extending
throughout musical history like the tentacles of an octopus, Byzantine
chant in its various forms and its descendants have provided starting
points for composers of polyphonic music. Dr. Moody reflects on the
surprisingly persistent influence of Byzantine and other Orthodox chant
traditions in the work of a number of contemporary composers, including
Michael Adamis, Arvo Pärt, Alexander Raskatov, John Tavener, and Dr. Moody
himself.

Saturday, November 14, at 10:00am: Panayotis League, Myth, Mimesis, and
Mimicry: Rebetic and Byzantine Echoes in Traditional Greek Music
Ethnomusicologist Panayotis League will present “Myth, Mimesis, and
Mimicry: Rebetic and Byzantine Echoes in Traditional Greek Music.” The
lecture examines the role Greek Orthodox liturgical music and the syncretic
urban genre rebetika play in the popular music of insular Greece.

Both lectures will take place in the Archbishop Iakovos Library Reading
Room at Hellenic College Holy Cross (50 Goddard Avenue, Brookline, MA).

For more information about the lectures, visit www.BostonByzantineMusic.org
or contact Brandie Ratliff
​ (mjcbac at hchc.edu)​
, Director, Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture.
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