A "Byzantine Holiday Pop-Up" concert, directed by Eleftherios Eleftheriadis, who teaches a continuing education extension course in Byzantine music at St. Vladimir's, will be held at The Metropolitan Museum's Medieval Sculpture Hall, Friday, December 19, 2014, at 2 p.m., 4 p.m., and 6 p.m. The concert is free with museum admission and is a presentation by The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Department of Concerts and Lectures in cooperation with The Axion Estin Foundation of New Rochelle, NY.

The pop-up concert was recently noted in The New Yorker, in an article titled "The Art of the Voice," by reviewer Russell Platt, who called it "a commendable effort to bring holiday music back to the magnificent space," referring to the space in the Sculpture Hall just below the large meticulously painted replica of a thirteenth-century mosaic of Christ found in Hagia Sophia, Istanbul, Turkey.

Mr. Eleftheriadis will be teaching a spring semester course in traditional Byzantine Music on the seminary campus, which is open to the public as well as seminarians. Read more and register here.