“Great figures pass, voices fade. Only the memory and history of the human record remains”

“Great figures pass, voices fade. Only the memory and history of the human record remains”

Thrasyvoulos Stanitsas, Constantinople 1962

“Create Music and work relentlessly”

“Create Music and work relentlessly”

Platonos Phaidon 60Ε

Personal Web Site of Athanasios J. Paivanas

The purpose of this website is the promotion, cultivation, and dissemination of the Art of Chanting of the Great Church of Christ, as it has been transmitted to us as a living tradition through the centuries by the Archon Protopsaltes of the Ecumenical Patriarchate.

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The Holy and Great Week

The Holy and Great Week

In the six-volume edition titled “The Holy and Great Week,” the musical interpretations of the Archon Protopsaltai of the Great Church of Christ—Konstantinos Pringos, Thrasyvoulos...

The Funeral Service

The Funeral Service

“The Funeral Service,as taught by Thrasyvoulos Stanitsasto his student Athanasios Paivanas.” “The work was published (in 160 copies) to mark the 30th anniversaryof the death of th...

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