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Throwback Thursday — A Time for Life a Best of 2007
A little “Throwback Thursday” post — The Oregonian world premiere performance of Robert Kyr’s A Time for Life named a “Best of 2007” by critic David Stabler: “Robert Kyr, among the country’s more socially active composers, mourned our planet with a gorgeous environmental oratorio that flooded St. Mary’s Cathedral with rapturous lyricism and a whiff
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The Oregonian Names “A Time For Life” A Portland Best
The Oregonian‘s David Stabler released a list of top spring arts events for Portland, and next weekend’s performance of Robert Kyr’s A Time For Life is a “second season” best! “Kyr’s environmental oratorio weeps for the earth. In our vast and seemingly hopeless effort to save the planet, ‘A Time for Life’ is a note
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Classical Voice North America Reviews Passion Week Premiere
Seattle critic, Philippa Kiraly, has a fantastic feature and review of our recent World Premiere performance of Maximilian Steinberg’s Passion Week in Classical Voice North America: “Sometimes it sounded stern or foreboding, sober or somber, at other times brighter and joyful, or hypnotic, peaceful, and uplifting, or solemn and reverential, even exalted in Great Saturday’s
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Soma Christou Virtual Choir
Here is the Greek-American answer to Eric Whitacre’s Virtual Choir, presenting the Communion Verse for Pascha (Easter) sung by members of Greek Orthodox church choirs from around the country, “virtually conducted” by the composer of this setting, Dr. Tikey Zes. Cappella Romana has long been a champion of Dr. Zes’ work, including his 1991 Divine
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For Holy Friday: Today he who hung the earth upon the waters is hung upon a Tree
Today, for Holy Friday, sung in the original medieval melody Antiphon 15. Tone 6 Today he who hung the earth upon the waters is hung upon a Tree, (x3) He who is King of the Angels is arrayed in a crown of thorns. He who wraps the heaven in clouds is wrapped in mocking purple.
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Excerpt of Maximilian Steinberg’s Passion Week
—UPDATE—- Buy The CD & The VINYL Today! Read the review: The first review for the world premiere performance of Maximilian Steinberg’s Passion Week comes from The Wall Street Journal: “At St. Mary’s, the opening verses of the alleluia of ‘Passion Week,’ intoned in Church Slavonic by one of Cappella’s stentorian bass voices, seemed to
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Portland Monthly Magazine Features Cappella Romana
Portland Monthly Magazine has published a list of Portland arts groups that Portlanders might take for granted, but are “beloved around the world,” and Cappella Romana is included in the list of five artists and ensembles: “Traveling more than any classical group in the region, Cappella Romana takes to the road for as many as
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The Wall Street Journal Reviews Passion Week!
The first review for the world premiere performance of Maximilian Steinberg’s Passion Week comes from The Wall Street Journal: “At St. Mary’s, the opening verses of the alleluia of ‘Passion Week,’ intoned in Church Slavonic by one of Cappella’s stentorian bass voices, seemed to portend another dose of the ensemble’s usual hieratic Byzantine and Russian
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Maximilian Steinberg, “Passion Week”, Op. 13 — Notes
Historians of Orthodox Christianity have charted the emergence of a ‘Russian Religious Renaissance’ out of the so-called ‘Silver Age’ of Russia, the culturally fruitful but politically turbulent decades immediately prior to the Bolshevik takeover in 1917. This movement encompassed a broad range of efforts aimed at various forms of spiritual, ecclesial, cultural, and national renewal
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Meet Vladimir Morosan
Meet our Passion Week, pre-concert lecturer, Vladimir Morosan courtesy of the Orthodox Arts Journal: Dr. Vladimir Morosan, Founder and President of Musica Russica, is one of the leading experts outside Russia in the fields of Russian choral music and Orthodox liturgical music. After completing his undergraduate degree in music at Occidental College, in Los Angeles,
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Cappella Romana Rehearses Passion Week!
Cappella Romana rehearses an excerpt from PASSION WEEK by Maximilian Steinberg, directed by Dr. Alexander Lingas. The final refrain from the 10th movement, “Arise, O God” “Voskrеsñí Bózhe, sudí zemlí, yáko tï naslédishï vo fséh yazítseh” “Arise, O God, judge the earth; for you shall have an inheritance among the nations.” From the Vespers of
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Alexander Lingas talks about Passion Week on OPB’s State of Wonder
Alexander Lingas gave an interview with April Baer of Oregon Public Broadcasting’s State of Wonder show about the re-discovery of Maximilian Steinberg’s Passion Week Cycle, Op. 13. Listen here to the story of how Dr. Lingas rediscovered and is now premiering the work with Cappella Romana. Read it Here! Passion Week Portland 8:30pm, Fri., Apr.
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