Professors Susan Boynton and Sharon Gerstel in conversation about chant and acoustics in the Byzantine churches of Thessaloniki
The Axion Estin Foundation announces a special edition of a radio program to be broadcast from 12:30 pm to 1 pm EST on Saturday, June 5th, 2021 through WNYE 91.5 Cosmos FM. The broadcast will feature Professor Sharon E. J. Gerstel discussing her research on music, monumental painting, and space in the Byzantine churches of Thessaloniki. Gerstel is the lead author of the article “Holy, Holy, Holy: Hearing the Voices of Angels,” which appeared in April in Gesta, the journal of the International Center of Medieval Art (Volume 60, Number 1, Spring 2021) published by the University of Chicago Press. Professor Susan Boynton (Columbia University), coeditor of Gesta, will host the program on behalf of the Advisory Board of the Foundation. Professor Gerstel is the Director of the UCLA Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture, in Los Angeles, CA. She is Professor of Byzantine Art & Archaeology and the George P. Kolovos Family Centennial Term Chair in Hellenic Studies. Recently she was awarded honorary citizenship by Greece and was named a Commander of the Order of the Phoenix by the Hellenic Republic.
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