GROSS: So are there many recordings of music from the Syrian Orthodox Church like the ancient music ... Inside of this tradition, there are hundreds of chants – 900. It used to be thousands.

The Akathist Hymn is a Service of the Orthodox Church that invites the faithful to rejoice in the unique and sublime role the Virgin Mary played in the salvation of mankind. Learn to Chant the Service ...

Describing the music, Professor Alexander Lingas says that Byzantine chant is both an intricate ... the power and transformative nature of the Church's centuries-old Byzantine musical tradition ...

Thus the church services were served in English, and a choir and choral music added to the traditional Byzantine Chant used for centuries. By the 1960s, to reflect the change in ethnicity ...