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Oregon Arts Watch Reviews A Time for Life
Oregon Arts Watch with a review from our A Time For Life concert in Portland: “… Kyr’s work really shines in the atmosphere it creates. The very beginning is understated, with strings alone. But as the voices come in, starting with the low tenor, the string harmony starts to take flight. A haunting spirituality arises,
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Cappella Romana Celebrates 15 Years of Oregon Art Beat This Weekend
Oregon Art Beat celebrates its 15th Season this year with a public exhibition, Oregon Art Beat Exhibition: Celebrating 15 Years of Creativity. Cappella Romana is happy to be a part of the celebration, and will perform at the Pioneer Place Mall Art Beat Main Stage Gallery on Saturday, May 24, at 6pm. For more information,
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Getty Museum Rehearsals at St. Sophia Cathedral
Have a look and listen to Cappella Romana’s rehearsal day at St. Sophia Cathedral in LA before the weekend’s Byzantine Chant performances at The Getty Museum: https://cappellaromana.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Video-May-15-12-22-27-PM.mp4
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Classical Net Reviews Tikey Zes: The Divine Liturgy
Classical Net‘s Brian Wigman with a fantastic review for our Tikey Zes: The Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom recording: “Led by two Greek Orthodox clergy, this new look at The Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom is nothing short of ravishing. The beautifully recorded sound allows you to hear just how good these singers
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Classical Net Raves about A Time For Life
Classical Net‘s Brian Wigman has a wonderful new review for our A Time For Life recording: “I am contending that great religious music, really great religious music, touches us all through beauty, musical thought, and sincerity of purpose. Therefore, this project is not only a major statement of ecumenical ideals, but also a major musical
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Pentecost from the Traditions of Constantinople Program Notes
The J. Paul Getty Villa 17 & 18 May 2014 Cappella Romana Performs Medieval Byzantine Chant Program Pentecost from the Traditions of Constantinople The second part of our program features music for Pentecost, the Sunday fifty days after Easter on which Christians commemorate the descent of the Holy Spirit on the Apostles. The services for
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Great and Holy Friday in Jerusalem Program Notes
The J. Paul Getty Villa 17 & 18 May 2014 Cappella Romana Performs Medieval Byzantine Chant Program Great and Holy Friday in Jerusalem 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
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Catholic Insight Reviews Mt. Sinai: Frontier of Byzantium
On their new CD, Cappella Romana performs Byzantine musical treasures from the cathedrals and monasteries of the Eastern Roman Empire which were preserved from destruction in the Egyptian desert at the Greek Orthodox Monastery of St. Catherine at Mt. Sinai.… This music speaks to a higher self: its target is the divine and focuses the
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Cappella Romana at The J. Paul Getty Villa Program
The J. Paul Getty Villa 17 & 18 May 2014 Cappella Romana Performs Medieval Byzantine Chant Program I. Great and Holy Friday in Jerusalem Processional Sticheron: “The Paradise in Eden,” Mode Plagal 4 Three-Ode Kanon (Triodion): Kosmas the Melodist (8th c.), Mode Plagal 2: Ode 5 Kontakion on Mary at the Cross (Short and Psaltikon
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Remember the World Premiere of A Time for Life
The full-page preview of A Time for Life in the Oregonian back in 2007: Click here for the PDF. And the review:
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Robert Kyr speaks about A Time for Life on YouTube
Robert Kyr Talks about his work, “A Time For Life” in this new video! Concert Tickets Purchase the Recording!
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From His All-Holiness +BARTHOLOMEW Patriarch of Constantinople and New Rome: A Time for Life
A letter of commendation from His All-Holiness +BARTHOLOMEW Ecumenical Patriarch and of Constantinople and New Rome For the work “A Time for Life” by Robert Kyr in concert this May 2 and 3 To Dr. Alexander Lingas, Artistic Director of Cappella Romana, our beloved son in the Lord: grace and peace from on high. It
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