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Two Free Concerts at St. George Antiochian Orghodox Christian Church
Cappella Romana is happy to announce two free mini-concerts on Sunday, September 8, 2013 at 2:00pm and 4:30pm during the St. George Antiochian Orthodox Christian Church’s 36th Annual Middle Eastern Festival! St. George members started the event in 1972 to celebrate their community’s unique heritage and to share fun, food, and excitement with their neighbors…
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Byzantine Christmas: Sun of Justice – Taking the Journey
The ecclesiastical feast day celebrating the Nativity of Jesus Christ – which came to be called simply “Christ’s Mass,” or “Christmas” in English – was added to the calendar in the Eastern Church somewhat later than other major feasts. Originally, Christ’s Nativity and Baptism were celebrated on the same day: Epiphany (January 6). Much has…
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Cappella Romana presents a free open rehearsal for donors and subscribers, completes recording of Music for Christmas by Richard Toensing
For this remarkable project, Richard Toensing composed an ambitious new a cappella work for Cappella Romana, requiring two choirs (24 singers), three male soloists (the Magi), treble and baritone duet (Christ), and soprano soloist (the Mother of God). Entitled “The Kontakion of the Nativity of Christ,” Toensing set an English translation of the majority of…
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Events at City University London
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEContact: Louise Gordon, Concerts Manager, +44 (0) 20 7040 8271, louise.gordon.1@city.ac.uk City University Brings ‘Voices of Byzantium’ to London ‘robust and intriguing music’—The Washington Post, 2 DEC. 06‘sung with such strength and commitment’ —Los Angeles Times, 12 DEC. 06 London. [12 February 2009] — In March 2009, the Department of Music at City…
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Receive “Byzantium 300-1453” FREE when you buy 2 or more CDs
Your FREE gift with 2 or more With your order of 2 or more CDs, we will send you a FREE GIFT: a copy of our latest title, “Byzantium: 330-1453,” a compilation of Cappella’s “Greatest Hits” of Byzantine music. CDs by Cappella Romana make great gifts. Choose from among our growing discography, from our latest…
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Free Season Preview!
Free Season Preview Concerts This Sunday, September 8! Season Previews at at Middle Eastern Festival, St. George Orthodox Church This Sunday, 8 September at 2:00pm and 4:30pm Selections from and related to Cappella Romana’s 2013-14 Season: Byzantine Chant Music of Orthodox Finland Russian Orthodox choral works Music for the Environment Also includes selections from the…
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Still Time for Free Shipping!
This Weekend through Midnight Dec. 7th — Get FREE SHIPPING ON YOUR ENTIRE ORDER when you add a gift of any size at CappellaRomana.org! (Your gift will be matched by the Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund). Add your items and your gift of any size to the shopping cart and use the VOUCHER code: freeship. Order…
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Kastalsky Requiem: Program Notes
Vasily Polikarpovich Titov (c.1650–c.1715) – Cherubic Hymn; Megalynarion Vasily Titov was one of two leading composers of Russian Baroque music, the other being Nikolai Diletsky (c. 1630–80). Titov’s life and work mark the mid-point of the process of Russia’s musical Westernization, which gained new momentum during the reign of Tsar Peter the Great (1689 –1725).…
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Venice in the East is Available Today!
Venice in the East: Renaissance Crete & Cyprus is out now on all of your favorite music outlets – and currently a Spotify New Release Top Pick and Apple Music featured new album! Get it Today! Amazon Apple Music ArkivMusic Spotify YouTube Music Cappella Romana About Venice in the East: Rennaisance Crete & Cyprus This…
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Psaltikon: The Day of Resurrection
The Historical Development of Easter The celebration of Easter (i.e., Pascha) for Orthodox Christians commences on Saturday morning with a Vesperal Liturgy that comprises psalms, hymns, and Old Testament readings, followed by the Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom. Pascha is formally inaugurated several hours later, at midnight, in a rush of blazing candles, exuberant…
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Ivor Gurney: “Since I Believe”
Choir & Organ Magazine has a wonderful feature on the recent publication of Ivor Gurney’s Since I Believe in God the Father Almighty Motet. Cappella Romana is excited to be giving the North American premiere performance on our They Are At Rest series November 9 and 11, 2018: “Composed in June 1925, the motet for…
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Cappella Romana presents: The Arvo Pärt Festival
The first-ever festival in North America dedicated to the music of Estonian Orthodox composer Arvo Pärt will take place February 5 – 12, 2017 in Portland, Oregon, presented by the Northwest’s leading professional chamber choir, Cappella Romana. Arvo Pärt is the most performed living composer in the world. Full information. The Arvo Pärt Festival features…
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