Category: News
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Good Friday In Jerusalem Liner Notes
In the year 637 AD the orthodox Christian Patriarch Sophronios (d. 638) surrendered Byzantine Jerusalem to the Arab Caliph Umar, inaugurating a period of Muslim rule in the Holy City that would last until its conquest by Latin Crusaders in 1099. Although subject to tribute, Jerusalem’s Christian inhabitants retained the right to continue celebrating both
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Pre-Order Good Friday in Jerusalem NOW
Good Friday in Jerusalem Medieval Byzantine Chant from the Church of the Holy Sepulchre Coming February 10, 2015! HELP US CHART THE RECORD by pre-ordering! Pre-Order on Amazon! Produced since 2004 by GRAMMY Award-winning producer Steve Barnett, Cappella Romana performs “music of purity and radiance” (Gramophone) in concerts of “luminous beauty” (Washington Post). Appearances in
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Good Friday in Jerusalem “in hand”
Stock of our February Good Friday in Jerusalem CD is now in hand! Street date for this release is February 10, but you can pre-order on Amazon NOW! Pre-Order on Amazon NOW! Cappella Romana’s latest release is in conjunction with our Good Friday in Jerusalem Concert Series in Seattle and Portland, February 6-8! Hear Medieval
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Echoes of the Renaissance – Pre-Concert Talks
Dr. Gil Seeley, music professor emeritus of Lewis and Clark College and of the Oregon Repertory Singers, will give the pre-concert talks for “Echoes of the Renaissance.” He was a classmate of Tikey Zes at the University of Southern California, and also knew Greek American composer and church musician Frank Desby, also a graduate of USC.
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Echoes of the Renaissance — Program Notes
In his magisterial The Rise of European Music, 1380–1500, Reinhard Strohm traces the development and dissemination of complex styles of music written with multiple voice parts using measured (‘mensural’) notation that enabled precise rhythmic coordination of the voices. By the middle of the fifteenth century the most notable centers for the production of this polyphonic
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Ockeghem Missa Mimi
Cappella Romana will perform the Missa Mimi by Johannes Ockeghem alongside excerpts from The Divine Liturgy by Tikey Zes in this weekend’s “Echoes of the Renaissance” concerts. Here, Dr. Tikey Zes conducts the Berkeley Chamber Singers in the Ockeghem Missa Mimi in a 1964 recording, likely the first recording ever made of this remarkable work.
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Looking Back on Arctic Light
As 2014 comes to a close, we look back on our Arctic Light concert and February CD release: Leitourgeia kai Qurbana Review Fanfare Magazine Interview Fanfare Magazine Review Video from the Arctic Light Concert: [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/132912947″ params=”color=a02d2d&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/128392841″ params=”color=a02d2d&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]
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Stream our Messiah Performance on AllClassical FM
Courtesy of Portland’s AllClassical FM, you can listen to our performance of Handel’s Messiah with the Portland Baroque Orchestra from now through January 6, 2015! Visit www.allclassical.org today! Audio Courtesy of All Classical: http://player.allclassical.org/ondemand/other/messiah-pbo-2014.mp3
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Cappella Romana sings Christmas Carols at Pioneer Courthouse Square
Christmas Carols on Wednesday, 10 December Cappella Romana sings at Pioneer Courthouse Square Wednesday, 10 December, 5:00pm Pioneer Courthouse Square: SW 6th & Yamhill FREE Stop by Pioneer Courthouse Square to enjoy a selection of Christmas carols, featuring especially selections by the late Orthodox composer Richard Toensing (recorded on the CD “Kontakion on the Nativity”).
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Handel’s Messiah — Notes by John Butt
Messiah The libretto that the irascible Charles Jennens sent to Handel at some point in the summer of 1741 was not in itself an extraordinary document within the Christian tradition. After all, the Gospels and Epistles already made ample reference to the way in which the New Testament was foretold in the Old, and this tradition
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The #Unselfie Movement — Adam Steele
Cappella Romana singer Adam Steele, a graduate of Pacific University and Portland State University, recently received a prestigious International Conductors Exchange Program fellowship from the American Choral Director’s Association to represent the art of American choral conducting in Sweden in the Fall of 2015. Adam is one of just two conductors chosen from the NW
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