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Out of the Ashes of Smyrna: The Jewell of Asia Minor
Since the 18th century, the city of Smyrna, on the western shores of Asia Minor, was the most important commercial port in the Eastern Mediterranean. Through the early 20th century, both raw materials for industrial textiles as well as agricultural products were exported from Smyrna to the West. The resulting economic prosperity brought diverse populations…
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A Ukrainian Wedding (Program Notes from Nadia Tarnawsky)
The traditional Ukrainian wedding ritual lasts at least a week – sometimes longer. There are some variations from region to region and village to village, but the main outline of the ritual follows the same journey. The young couple is engaged. Various wedding items are made – the wedding bread, the wreaths for the young…
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Somewhere In Between: Ivan Moody’s Greek Liturgy
For someone familiar with Greek Orthodox liturgy, today’s performance will echo the experience of actual services, with abbreviations appropriate to a concert. At the same time, those new to the form may experience the performance as though it were liturgically complete even with the adjustments made for a concert context. Cappella Romana presents here the…
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July 4th Sale!
Save $10 per ticket to see The Tudor Choir in Portland in Sections A or B with coupon code “JULY4”. Valid until midnight on July 4! Buy Now and Save! Cappella Romana presents a festive summer concert Saturday, 26 July 2014, at St. Mary’s Cathedral celebrating Bach and his predecessors of the late-Renaissance and early-Baroque,…
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Meet Richard Toensing
May 18-20 during the Be Radiant, O Peoples! tour, Cappella Romana will premiere a new work by composer Richard Toensing. Richard Toensing is not a new composer to Cappella Romana fans, however, as we released the recording Kontakion On The Nativity & Carols By Richard Toensing in 2008. Kontakion On The Nativity & Carols By…
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Cappella Romana in concert this weekend!
Cappella Romana in concert July 26-28! Cappella Romana at the Abbey Bach Festival, Mt. Angel in the beautiful Willamette Valley Thursday, July 26, 6pmFriday, July 27, 6pm Two programs of Russian Orthodox choral works from Titov to Bortniansky, in up to 12 individual parts Cappella Romana will present an historic review of Baroque and Classical…
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Excitement Building for Hagia Sophia Virtual Performance
The excitement is building for our Hagia Sophia recreation concert at Stanford this season. So much so, that just this week, two different publications have featured it. Stanford Magazine goes into detail of how the concert came to be and how it works: “The first step to recreating the auditory experience of Hagia Sophia was…
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Ivan Moody on the Rachmaninoff Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom
Following three sold-out performances last season of Rachmaninoff’s All-Night Vigil (“Vespers”), this year Cappella Romana presents Rachmaninoff’s earlier sacred masterpiece, the Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom (1910). Composer (and friend of Cappella Romana) Fr. Ivan Moody, published some wonderful program notes for the Corydon Singers recording of this work, and we’ll quote some of…
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Cappella Romana Members to Perform A Byzantine Christmas
Cappella Romana members Spyridon Antonopoulos and John Michael Boyer to perform A Byzantine Christmas: A Concert of Byzantine Chants and Greek Carols as presented by The Greek Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Greek Institute invites you to its third annual Byzantine Christmas. Music Director Spyridon Antonopoulos is joined by acclaimed chanters and world musicians from Boston and beyond in a…
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Meet Owen Rees’s ensemble Contrapunctus
Meet upcoming guest conductor Owen Rees’s ensemble Contrapunctus: Coupling powerful interpretations with path-breaking scholarship, Contrapunctus presents music by the best known composers as well as unfamiliar masterpieces. Contrapunctus grew from the vocal ensemble A Capella Portuguesa, in recognition of the group’s broadening repertoire, and its dedication to the music of composers from various nations including…
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Celebrate Pascha! Also In Mulieribus this Sunday!
Happy Pascha: May 5 Cappella Romana sings the opening of Semeron krematai in the medieval melody from Jerusalem, during recording sessions at Stanford University in February, 2013. Σήμερον κρεμᾶται ἐπὶ ξύλου, ὁ ἐν ὕδασι τὴν γῆν κρεμάσας. Today he who hung the earth upon the waters is hung upon a TreeHe who is King of…
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Fanfare Magazine reviews Mt. Sinai: Frontier of Byzantium and Live in Greece!
A double-feature Fanfare review by J.F. Weber features our LIVE IN GREECE and Mt. Sinai: Frontier of Byzantium recordings. Mt. Sinai: Frontier of Byzantium “The chants for these two services come from a variety of sources in or close to the 14th century, including works by such well-known composers as John Koukouzeles and Manuel Chrysaphes.…
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