Course Description
In a culture driven by urgency and instant results, Christian patience is easily misunderstood—or dismissed altogether. Yet the early Church saw patience not as passivity, but as a formative expression of faith in the Resurrection of Jesus Christ—central to Christian witness, leadership, and catechesis.
This course offers concrete tools for understanding hymnographic structure, musical emphasis, and textual nuance - helping clergy become more attentive leaders of worship and more insightful interpreters of the Church’s musical language.
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About this course
- $125.00
- 4 video lectures by the professor
- 4 PowerPoint slides
- Optional readings
About the Professor
Rev. Dn Dr Harrison Russin
The Rev. Dn Dr Harrison Russin is Assistant Professor of Liturgical Music at St Vladimir's Seminary. He holds a Ph.D. in musicology from Duke University, where he wrote a dissertation on late medieval and early Renaissance settings of the Creed in the Latin Mass, focusing on monophonic and polyphonic versions. As an active Orthodox Church musician, Dn Harrison conducts the choirs at St Vladimir's Seminary and has served as a consultant for the Liturgical Music and Translations Department of the OCA. He is a St Vladimir's Seminary alumnus (M.Div. ‘13) and is married to Gabrielle, a 2014 M.A. alumna.