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The following interesting bit of information was posted in the byzantinechant forum by Apostolos Combitsis and comes from Archon Domestikos Miltiadis Pappas.
After the deportation of Stanitsas from Constantinople, Danielidis goes to the right analogion, with Fr. Tsinaras on the left as Lambadarios (April 1964). However, Athenagoras did not give the offikion of Archon Protopsaltis to Danielidis because he didn't like him. He didn't like him because he knew the taxis of the Patriarchate, even when he was Domestikos to Pringos, and this is why he never gave him the offikion. Also, Danielidis had his son at the Analogion, and because both he and his son were overweight, he was often made fun of by the Patriarch and other hierarchs. Perhaps as a result of the "abuse", Danielidis dies of a stroke in January of 1965. Fr. Tsinaras, who was acting as the Archon Lambadarios, was by himself for two months. Then, Athenagoras calls Leonidas Asteris three times to invite him to the Patriarchate, but he declined. (Mention must be made that Asteris used to chant at many panigyria in Constantinople at the time, so Athenagoras knew him well.) Because there weren't many psaltes left in Constantinople, Athenagoras brought in Vasilios Nikolaidis from St. Demetrios of Tataoulon, primarily because he also had a choir of small boys. Nikolaidis, however, had neither the voice nor the patriarchal conception of chanting. Archon Miltiadis has many recordings of Nikolaidis with two-part and four-part harmonizations, which Athenagoras would ask him to do and, because he was a good man with a kind heart, would never deny the Patriarch. He would chant HIS OWN Leitourgika, as well as those of other composers such as Hatziathanassiou, which were NEVER allowed to be chanted at the Patriarchal Church.
After the deportation of Stanitsas from Constantinople, Danielidis goes to the right analogion, with Fr. Tsinaras on the left as Lambadarios (April 1964). However, Athenagoras did not give the offikion of Archon Protopsaltis to Danielidis because he didn't like him. He didn't like him because he knew the taxis of the Patriarchate, even when he was Domestikos to Pringos, and this is why he never gave him the offikion. Also, Danielidis had his son at the Analogion, and because both he and his son were overweight, he was often made fun of by the Patriarch and other hierarchs. Perhaps as a result of the "abuse", Danielidis dies of a stroke in January of 1965. Fr. Tsinaras, who was acting as the Archon Lambadarios, was by himself for two months. Then, Athenagoras calls Leonidas Asteris three times to invite him to the Patriarchate, but he declined. (Mention must be made that Asteris used to chant at many panigyria in Constantinople at the time, so Athenagoras knew him well.) Because there weren't many psaltes left in Constantinople, Athenagoras brought in Vasilios Nikolaidis from St. Demetrios of Tataoulon, primarily because he also had a choir of small boys. Nikolaidis, however, had neither the voice nor the patriarchal conception of chanting. Archon Miltiadis has many recordings of Nikolaidis with two-part and four-part harmonizations, which Athenagoras would ask him to do and, because he was a good man with a kind heart, would never deny the Patriarch. He would chant HIS OWN Leitourgika, as well as those of other composers such as Hatziathanassiou, which were NEVER allowed to be chanted at the Patriarchal Church.