It does change every week. Clergy Communion is the only point in any Orthodox service where the choir director has a large degree of...

Why don't all Orthodox choirs use Byzantine chant, which is the original chant of the Church? This is a vast topic more appropriate for a...

Orthodox liturgical music operates in a system of eight tones; most hymn texts are designated to be sung in one of them. The eight-tone...

A prokeimenon (Greek for "what is set forth") is a short series of Psalm verses that precedes a Scripture reading. At the Sunday Divine...

Smooth recovery from mistakes — those made by themselves, those made by the choir and those made by the clergy — is where directors earn...

I grew up in a grab-bag of (mostly) mainstream Protestant denominations, and sang in the choir of every church I attended (except for the...