Anchiskhati Choir

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The Anchiskhati Choir is the choir of the Anchiskhati Church in Tbilisi, Georgia. These nine bearded men play a special role in their country's preservation of its musical heritage. For almost three generations, during the Communist regime, church music was prohibited. In 1989 as the Soviet Union was disintegrating, the singers of Anchiskhati were the first to revive medieval church music in services. They sing chants that were previously unknown or available only in indecipherable manuscripts. An ancient center of enlightenment, Anchiskhati Church, which dates from the sixth century, is the oldest Orthodox Christian church in the Georgian capital of Tblisi. The name Anchiskhati means icon (khati) of Anchi, which refers to an icon of Jesus not made by human hand (akin to Torin's shroud). Georgian church chanting is on of the country's chief artistic traditions and widely regarded as unique among world music's. Nothing like its polyphony, with three independent melodies juxtaposed in harmony, exists anywhere else in the world. Some musicologists believe that polyphony originated in Georgia before spreading to Europe. In any case most experts agree that polyphony was established in Georgia by about the seventh century three hundred years before it developed in Western Europe. The church music and the folk music of Georgia are closely intertwined, and Anchiskhati Church's choir sings them both boldly. The common roots of both kinds of music in Georgia's history lie with an a

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