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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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Watch Cappella Romana’s Twelfth Night Performance
Watch the full performance from the Twelfth Night Festival in New York City courtesy of Trinity Wall Street!
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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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Caroling at Pioneer Courthouse Square
Caroling at Pioneer Courthouse Square: Here a Greek carol from Thrace “Christ is born” (sung in Greek and English for the first verse, and in English thereafter in a translation-in-progress by Mark Powell). With thanks to Ioannis Arvanitis for sharing this carol with us.
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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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BBC Radio 4 Features Alexander Lingas
BBC Radio 4 interviews Cappella Romana artistic director Alexander Lingas in the second episode of the series, Byzantium Unearthed, and Cappella Romana can be heard in the opening of the first episode as well as throughout! Click below to listen to Episode Two; Alexander Lingas comes in around 15:00 mark:
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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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