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NEW Double CD | BYZANTIUM IN ROME: Medieval Byzantine Chant from Grottaferrata
NEW Double CDBYZANTIUM IN ROME: Medieval Byzantine Chant from Grottaferrata Click here to order. Sound samples: Teleutaion Alleluia | Prosomoia for St. Benedict | Kontakion for St. Bartholomew | Communion for Pentecost This release by Cappella Romana is a breathtaking collection of Medieval Byzantine Chant sung from manuscripts made at the Abbey of Grottaferrata in…
Review of A TIME FOR LIFE
Today’s Oregonian posted an excellent review of Cappella Romana’s program, A Time for Life. A PDF of that review can be viewed here: Review of A Time for Life, The Oregonian, November 5, 2007 Full text also here: ‘Time’ cries out for planet’s salvation Monday, November 05, 2007 DAVID STABLER The Oregonian Staff A tenor…
Oregonian Classical Blog
David Stabler blogged on his experience of the dress rehearsal for A Time for Life: http://blog.oregonlive.com/classicalmusic/2007/11/i_never_attend_rehearsals_exce.html Music Criticism for Dummies Posted by David Stabler November 01, 2007 11:09AM Categories: News Olivia Bucks One of the rules in “Music Criticism for Dummies,” just below “10 Tricks to Stay Awake at Concerts” and “100 Cliches to Sneak…
A TIME FOR LIFE Now in Rehearsal
A TIME for LIFE: Music for the Environment Cappella Romana is in residence this week working on Robert Kyr’s innovative new work on the theme of living in harmony with nature, “A TIME FOR LIFE.” (Click here for a sound sample of music by Robert Kyr). Artistic Director Alexander Lingas is shown above, conducting, with…
About Rev. Dr. John Chryssavgis, and his talks on November 2 and 3
Before the concerts of A TIME FOR LIFE, in a special introductory presentation that will assume the form of an ecological meditation, Rev. Dr. John Chryssavgis will explore a sacred vision of the earth. Through images and word, he will reflect on the relationship of spirituality to ecology, emphasizing the role of icons, liturgy and…
Sneak preview of “A TIME FOR LIFE”
Here are some of the texts from Robert Kyr’s A TIME FOR LIFE: I. “O Creator:Look at our brokenness. In all creation,Only the human familyHas strayed from the Sacred Way. O Creator:Teach us love, compassion, and honor,So we may heal the earth.So we may heal each other.” –Ojibway Prayer, adapted by Robert Kyr II. “O…
City University features Dr Alexander Lingas and Cappella Romana
City University London’s staff newsletter features Cappella Romana: Click here
Cappella Romana presents a free open rehearsal for donors and subscribers, completes recording of Music for Christmas by Richard Toensing
For this remarkable project, Richard Toensing composed an ambitious new a cappella work for Cappella Romana, requiring two choirs (24 singers), three male soloists (the Magi), treble and baritone duet (Christ), and soprano soloist (the Mother of God). Entitled “The Kontakion of the Nativity of Christ,” Toensing set an English translation of the majority of…
Cappella Romana’s Chant Ensemble Presents the New Photo
Photographer Bill Stickney has created a fantastic image of Cappella Romana as men’s chant ensemble. Hi-res versions are available for print.
Music from Mt. Sinai: Recorded!
Cappella Romana’s program “Mt. Sinai: Frontier of Byzantium” was recorded last week, from August 20 through August 25, in the extraordinary acoustics of Holy Rosary Church in West Seattle. Alexander Lingas (center) led a nine-member ensemble in chants from the monastery of St. Catherine at Mt. Sinai in Egypt, featuring music for St. Catherine followed…
Christmas in the Summer: Preparing for Toensing’s Kontakion
In 2006 Cappella Romana was approached by the composer Richard Toensing to record a set of his Christmas carols and a new major work for double choir and soloists, The Kontakion of the Nativity of Christ, with a translation based on the English text by Fr. Ephrem Lash. Last night (24 July 2007) was the…
With Anonymous 4, Concord Ensemble at Pepperdine University in Malibu
Cappella Romana has been invited to perform as one of three headliner groups in the festival “The Ascending Voice” this June at Pepperdine University, an international symposium of sacred a cappella music. Representing the Orthodox a cappella tradition in Byzantine chant, Cappella Romana will be featured alongside Concord Ensemble (singing Latin polyphony) and Anonymous 4…
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