Celebration of the Akathist Hymn to the Mother of God
Sung in Greek
28 Mars 2025 6.30 pm:
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This celebration was also a tribute to Father Maximos (Joseph) Fahme, who died yesterday at the age of 101. An inspiring interpreter of the Greek tradition of liturgical chant, Joseph Fahme was born on 4 April 1924 in Aleppo, Syria, into a Melkite (Greek-Catholic) family. In 1936, at the age of twelve, he entered Saint Anne's Seminary in Jerusalem. It was there that he received his first spiritual and musical training. When he entered the Major Seminary, he was a regular visitor to the Holy Sepulchre, where two great Orthodox psalters regularly sang: Papadopoulos from Constantinople and Evlambios from Athens. Listening to these psalters was a delight and young Joseph imitated them, gradually finding his own style. In 1949, he returned to Aleppo, then moved to Paris in 1955. In 1958, he returned to Aleppo and formed a 50-strong Byzantine music choir (mixed choir). He directed it until 1965, when he returned to Paris to study. Eventually, he settled in Paris, serving the Greek-Melkite church of Saint Julien le Pauvre, one of the capital's oldest and most beautiful churches, located near the cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris.
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