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Latin Music in Cyprus
Literary witnesses to the cultivation of music by the French kings of Cyprus are found in a variety of sources, but nearly all of the surviving music associated with the Lusignan court is contained in a single manuscript: Torino Biblioteca Nazionale Universitaria J.II.9. This remarkable document was, according to Karl Kügle (2012), evidently copied between…
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Now Playing on YouTube — Maximilian Steinberg: Passion Week
Listen to our new Maximilian Steinberg: Passion Week recording on YouTube! Buy The CD & The VINYL Today! Guarantee Tickets to Next Season’s Passion Week Performance: Seattle Subscription Portland Subscription All 2015-2016 Series Concerts: Rachmaninoff’s All-Night Vigil — September 11-12-13, 2015 Cyprus: Greek East & Latin West — November 13-14-15, 2015 Epiphany: Medieval Byzantine &…
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Ivan Moody To Give Pre-Concert Lecture
Pre-Concert Talks: Meet Ivan Moody One hour prior to each concert, guest director Ivan Moody will present a brief talk on the program, and will be available to sign his recent book and CDs (a selection will be available for purchase). Rev. Dr. Ivan Moody is one of the world’s leading scholars on Russian composer…
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Steinberg: Passion Week Pre-Release Party at ACDA
February 25-28, 2015 is the American Choral Directors Association Convention in Salt Lake City! As part of the celebrations, our new recording of Maximillian Steinberg’s Passion Week will be available for purchase nearly a month before its release date (March 24)! Find it at the Musica Russia booth, and during a read-along session of the…
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After 35 years, founder Alexander Lingas retires as Music Director of celebrated vocal ensemble Cappella Romana
Founder and Music Director Alexander Lingas will move into a new role as Music Director Emeritus this spring, passing the baton to a new generation while redirecting his focus towards academic work. Dr. Lingas will conduct the final concerts of Cappella Romana’s current season on March 6 and 7, 2026, featuring Maximilian Steinberg’s extraordinary Passion…
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Pre-Order Good Friday in Jerusalem NOW
Good Friday in Jerusalem Medieval Byzantine Chant from the Church of the Holy Sepulchre Coming February 10, 2015! HELP US CHART THE RECORD by pre-ordering! Pre-Order on Amazon! Produced since 2004 by GRAMMY Award-winning producer Steve Barnett, Cappella Romana performs “music of purity and radiance” (Gramophone) in concerts of “luminous beauty” (Washington Post). Appearances in…
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Echoes of the Renaissance — Program Notes
In his magisterial The Rise of European Music, 1380–1500, Reinhard Strohm traces the development and dissemination of complex styles of music written with multiple voice parts using measured (‘mensural’) notation that enabled precise rhythmic coordination of the voices. By the middle of the fifteenth century the most notable centers for the production of this polyphonic…
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What’s On Your Analogion? Podcast
Byzantine chant has a rich book and manuscript culture going back a millennium, but English language Byzantine chant books are still a very new thing. What does it take to produce beautiful chant books in a world where electronic devices and loose leaf binders have become the norm in their absence? How do they get…
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A Ukrainian Wedding — Meet The Soloists
Meet our Guest Conductor, Nadia Tarnawsky, and the Principal Soloists, Ukrainians Inna Kovtun and Hanna Tishchenko before “A Ukrainian Wedding” this weekend: Hear them this weekend, May 19–21, in Seattle, Portland, and Milwaukie (OR)! Don’t miss these previews! У нєдєлєчку да сонца / U nyedyelyechku da sontsa / On Sunday morningChernihiv region У нєдєлєчку да…
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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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