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Mass Appeal – Living Traditions
Mass Appeal SEATTLE Fri 24 Oct 2O25, 7:3O PMSt. Mark’s CathedralCapitol Hill, Seattle PORTLAND Sun 26 Oct 2O25, 2:OO PMSt. Mary’s CathedralNorthwest Portland It was 2018 when David Hattner first proposed pairing Bruckner’s Mass in E minor with Stravinsky’s Mass in a project with Cappella Romana and Portland Youth Philharmonic, and I immediately recognized the…
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Alexander Lingas Previews the 2025-26 Season on KOIN AM Extra
The 2025-26 Cappella Romana Season starts October 24 & 26! Artistic Director, Alexander Lingas, joined Portland’s KOIN AM Extra morning show to preview the season and catch you up on everything Cappella Romana has been up to this summer!
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Requiem for the Forgotten, Cantus Missae (Program Notes by Mark Powell and Frank La Rocca)
Requiem for the Forgotten, Cantus Missae Program Notes by Mark Powell and Frank La Rocca Josef Rheinberger: Cantus Missae in E-flat major, Op. 109 SEATTLE Friday, March 28 @ 7:30pmSt. James Cathedral PORTLAND Saturday, March 29 @ 2:00pmSt. Mary’s Cathedral LAKE OSWEGO Sunday, March 30 @ 3pmOur Lady of the Lake Parish Josef Gabriel Rheinberger…
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Save the Date — #GivingTuesday
SAVE THE DATE! After Two Days of Shopping, #GivingTuesday is a day to give back December 2nd, the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, is Giving Tuesday. Giving Tuesday is a global movement born in 2012 to shine a light on giving back. Make a gift to Cappella Romana by December 2nd. It is a holiday designed to…
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Boston & Chicago Tour — November 14-16
Cappella Romana travels to Boston TODAY (through the Arctic Blast!) and makes its Chicago debut on Sunday Keep up with the tour on Facebook & Twitter Boston On Nov. 14, The Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art & Culture presents Cappella Romana in concert, as part of the Second Boston Byzantine Music Festival. Events also…
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Thank you
Watch your mailbox for Cappella Romana’s 2024-25 guide for great music all season long! In the meantime, check out the season here: https://cappellaromana.org/season
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Sacred Songs of Serbia — Program Notes: Part Two
Sacred Songs of Serbia Serbian Chant and Church Choral Music Part One Polyphonic singing appeared for the first time in Serbian churches in the 1830s as a result of European and Russian influence. The expansion of newly organized Serbian church choirs was enormous and very soon the main problem was the lack of indigenous sacred…
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Meet Bogdan Djaković
Now in his 27th season directing the Choir of St. George’s Cathedral in Novi Sad, Serbia, Bogdan Djaković is one of the world’s leading experts in Serbian Orthodox Choral Music. Bogdan Djaković has established himself as an international director, leading performances in Italy, Great Britain, France, Spain, Germany, Greece, Slovenia, Croatia, Portugal, Switzerland and Sweden.…
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Notes for the Utrecht OudeMuziek Festival!
Programme Notes for ‘The Fall of Constantinople’ Cappella Romana – Utrecht Early Music Festival 2014 The creation of a re-imagined ‘Holy Roman Empire’, an entity which centuries later would be ruled by the Hapsburgs, was initially the response of Frankish kings and a resurgent Papacy to the retreat of Roman imperial power to Eastern Mediterranean…
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Cappella Romana at the Maliotis Cultural Center in Boston
Cappella Romana and the Maliotis Cultural Center are collaborating to launch Byzantine Chant: The Received Tradition , A Lesson Book, the long-awaited, comprehensive manual on the psaltic art by John Michael Boyer, Protopsaltis of the Metropolis of San Francisco and our Associate Music Director. The Maliotis Cultural Center is hosting the event in the auditorium…
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Scholarship
Christians have worshipped primarily through the medium of song since Christian Antiquity, creating thereby spiritually and artistically rich traditions of liturgical singing that are comparable to iconography in their spiritual and artistic stature. It must be admitted, however, that the musical aspect of Orthodox and early Catholic traditions are poorly known and even less understood.…
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