Pre-Order Our Venice in the East Recording Today!
Cappella Romana’s next recording Venice in the East will be released on August 30! Pre-order your copy today, and help put this record on the Billboard Classical Charts. You can also add the recording to your Wishlist, and make sure to share it with your friends! Pre-Order and Help Put us on the Charts! Venice…
Cappella Romana to Receive $15,000 Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts
San Francisco, Calif.—National Endowment for the Arts Acting Chairman Mary Anne Carter has approved more than $80 million in grants as part of the Arts Endowment’s second major funding announcement for fiscal year 2019. Included in this announcement is an Art Works grant of $15,000 to Cappella Romana to support its ongoing concert series in…
Why Is There Water Dripping down My Face? A Night at Pop-Up Magazine.
“my whole body shivered and the tears started up.” Review from the Stranger, Seattle: Still, it wasn’t just the sad stories that triggered crying. Sam Harnett brought along the Cappella Romana choir, a vocal ensemble based in Portland that sings ancient religious chants. The singers were brilliant on their own, but then Harnett told us…
“Lovely becomes transcendent” – Cappella Romana in Playbill
“Dust particles pumped onto the stage swirl in golden light. The choir intakes breath again, but this time, the reverberation transports the entire audience to Turkey. They sing and it’s 537 A.D. This is what it must have felt like—nearly. Lovely becomes transcendent.” Read the whole review of Cappella Romana in Pop-Up Magazine here. CAPPELLA…
Northwest Focus Spotlight!
Seattle’s KING FM is highlighting Cappella Romana on the Northwest Focus program Monday-Thursday this week (5/6-5/9/2019). Date Time Music Monday, May 6 8:07pm Attinen: Saata, oi Kristus Tuesday, May 7 9:20pm Plousiadenos: Kontakion for St. Thomas Aquinas Wednesday, May 8 9:04pm Tragodistes: O Great and Most Sacred Pascha Thursday, May 9 8:02pm Zes: Introit to…
Psaltikon: The Day of Resurrection
The Historical Development of Easter The celebration of Easter (i.e., Pascha) for Orthodox Christians commences on Saturday morning with a Vesperal Liturgy that comprises psalms, hymns, and Old Testament readings, followed by the Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom. Pascha is formally inaugurated several hours later, at midnight, in a rush of blazing candles, exuberant…
Psaltikon Sings the 9th Ode of the Paschal Canon
Psaltikon is presented by Cappella Romana this May. Click here for more information. Psaltikon: The Day of Resurrection Cappella Romana presents Psaltikon, the Boston-based Byzantine chant ensemble directed by Spyridon Antonopoulos, for a program of celebratory Byzantine chants for Pascha from Medieval Byzantium. Experience the Eastern sibling of Gregorian Chant: Medieval Byzantine Chant, for Easter (Pascha).…
Meet The Tallis Scholars
Tickets SeattleSaturday, 6 April, 8:00pmSt. James Cathedral TICKETS PortlandSunday, 7 April, 2:00pmSt. Mary’s Cathedral TICKETS …The rock stars of Renaissance vocal music… —The New York Times …one of the UK’s greatest cultural exports —BBC Radio 3 The Tallis Scholars were founded in 1973 by their director, Peter Phillips. Through their recordings and concert performances, they…
Cappella Romana performs before 7,000 in Pop-Up Magazine Winter Issue Experience
During our time with the Pop-Up Magazine this February, Cappella Romana performed medieval Byzantine chant from its Hagia Sophia program before a total of 7,000 people across three sold-out theaters in Oakland, Brooklyn, and Washington D.C. The story in which we appeared was called “Sacred Sounds,” which describes how our friends at Stanford University figured…
Ave Maria: Program Notes
Josquin des Prez and Heinrich Isaac were two Renaissance composers with two quite different characters, in music and in life. We know what Isaac’s signature looked like because he dutifully signed the account books as a musical servant of the Emperor Maximilian. We know what Josquin’s signature looked like because he carved it (not at…
Meet Blake Applegate, guest conductor of “Ave Maria”
Blake Applegate is one of Cappella Romana’s original singers, having taken part in the ensemble’s first concert in 1991. He is Director of Cantores in Ecclesia, assuming leadership of the organization upon the retirement of his father, Dean Applegate, in the spring of 2010. Prior to his appointment as Director, Blake served as Assistant Director,…
Cappella Romana to Perform for Pop-Up Magazine Winter Issue 2019!
A NIGHT OF TRUE STORIES, DOCUMENTARY FILMS, PHOTOGRAPHY, AND RADIO FROM SOME OF OUR FAVORITE WRITERS, PERFORMERS, AND MUSICIANS. UNRECORDED, LIVE ONSTAGE. Cappella Romana, Portland’s professional vocal ensemble dedicated to ancient and modern music of the Christian East and West, will perform at Pop-Up Magazine’s Winter Issue live event. Pop-Up Magazine is self-described as “a…
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