Organist, musicologist, researcher of the project “Performer’s Polyfunctionality in Musical, Cultural and Social Processes” Egl\u0117 \u0160eduikyt\u0117-Korien\u0117 has participated at the international conference “Critical Perspectives on Music, Education, and Religion”. The conference took place on August\u00a020\u201322, 2014, at the Sibelius Academy at the University of the Arts,\u00a0Helsinki, Finland.\u00a0The CPMER conference was\u00a0held at the Helsinki Music Center, which is currently the home for the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra and the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, and the Sibelius Academy. The speakers of the conference were invited to discuss about the ever increasing consciousness of cultural diversity, the relations between education and religion, the presence of religion in music education contexts and the various related\u00a0political, cultural, social, legal, educational, aesthetic, ethical, and religious tensions. The scholars have approached the suggested topics from the perspectives of various research areas, such as\u00a0pedagogy, musicology, ethnomusicology, religious studies, philosophy, sociology, anthropology, cultural studies, gender studies etc.<\/p>\n
The paper by Egl\u0117 \u0160eduikyt\u0117-Korien\u0117, \u201eStability and Variability in Organist\u2018s Education: The Case of the Lithuanian Organ School\u201c, presented the Lithuanian organ playing school. A\u00a0special attention was paid to the change of the nature and the mission of this most church-related musical profession from the end of the 19th century to this day. By analyzing the functions and topical issues of the multifaceted profession of a church organist, this type of a musician was presented at the conference as a figure connecting the fields of music, culture and religion.<\/p>\n
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Prepared as\u00a0part of the cultural development project \u201cA Performer\u2019s Polyfunctionality in Musical,\u00a0Cultural and Social Processes\u201d funded by the Lithuanian Research Council (Contract No MIP-095\/2013).<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Organist, musicologist, researcher of the project “Performer’s Polyfunctionality in Musical, Cultural and Social Processes” Egl\u0117 \u0160eduikyt\u0117-Korien\u0117 has participated at the international conference “Critical Perspectives on Music, Education, and Religion”. The conference took place on August\u00a020\u201322, 2014, at the Sibelius Academy at the University of the Arts,\u00a0Helsinki, Finland.\u00a0The CPMER conference was\u00a0held at the Helsinki Music Center, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t