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…
On tour in Santa Barbara prior to The Ascending Voice
Just prior to the conference at Pepperdine, Cappella Romana returns to Santa Barbara to perform its program Mt. Sinai: Frontier of Byzantium. Its first performance in Santa Barbara since 2001, Alexander Lingas will direct the singers in a program of virtuoso medieval Byzantine chant from ancient manuscripts at St. Catherine’s Monastery, Mt. Sinai, Egypt. Cappella…
Cappella Romana tours the East Coast this April
Princeton and Yale present Cappella Romana in“Hellenes and Music of the Renaissance” This April, just after Easter (Pascha) and before its series concerts in Portland and Seattle, Cappella Romana will appear at Princeton and Yale Universities in a program called “Hellenes and the Music of the Renaissance.” Founding artistic director Alexander Lingas leads Cappella Romana…
Radiant Cloud in April
RADIANT CLOUDAlexander Lingas, dir. Luminous choral music by contemporary composers steeped in the Byzantine tradition. Featured works include: Radiant Cloud and the World Premiere of A Woman Clothed with the Sun, a setting from the Book of Revelation, by Michael Adamis and the “Benedictions” from the Requiem by Mikis Theodorakis, best known worldwide for his…
Cappella Romana’s new weblog
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