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Cyber Monday – Mt. Sinai: Frontier of Byzantium
One of the premiere recordings available in our Cyber Monday Week Sale is our recent recording Mt. Sinai: Frontier of Byzantium! Mt. Sinai: Frontier of Byzantium Cappella Romana performs exquisite Byzantine musical treasures—from the cathedrals and monasteries of the Eastern Roman Empire—preserved from destruction in the Egyptian desert at the Greek Orthodox Monastery of St.…
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Cyber Week Sale Ends Tonight!
Our Cyber Monday, week-long Sale ends TONIGHT at Midnight! Get in on the savings while you still can! Purchase two or more CDs and get 50% off your entire order with promo code “2for1”! You can get a head start to your Christmas music listening by purchasing one of our Christmas CDs like Kontakion on…
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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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Indiana Public Media’s Harmonia features Mt. Sinai: Frontier of Byzantium
Indiana Public Media’s “Harmonia Early Music” program featured Cappella Romana release Mt. Sinai: Frontier of Byzantium as a part of their “Christmas Carols, Chant and Legend” episode. From Harmonia Early Music: “Byzantine” chant has roots in ancient Greek music, as well as in the Jewish synagogue and in poetry and hymns composed in Syriac in…
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Get a look at Bing Concert Hall
February 1st, Cappella Romana will perform in Stanford University’s all-new Bing Concert Hall (just opened this past weekend)! Cappella Romana will perform the “From Constantinople to California” program amid acoustics electronically enhanced to simulate the lush resonances of the ancient Hagia Sophia cathedral in Istanbul, Turkey in collaboration with faculty in Art & Art History and the…
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Friday Night Recap – Cappella Romana Time Travels to Hagia Sophia
“It is impossible to describe the experience objectively; to even attempt to do so would miss the point of a sensual experience meant to induce a transcendent state. Throwing all caution to the winds, as it were, the “performance” was the closest to lift-off I have experienced short of chemically enhanced listening sessions or the…
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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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Tomas Luis de Victoria – Renaissance Easter in Spain and Portugal
Cappella Romana performs the polyphonic motets of Tomás Luis de Victoria in the April concert series Renaissance Easter in Spain and Portugal. Read a little background on this influential Spanish Renaissance composer: Owen Rees – guest conductor & author “Victoria was the greatest Spanish composer of the Renaissance, and also one of the finest European…
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Cappella Romana Renaissance Easter in Spain and Portugal Program Notes
Renaissance Easter in Spain and Portugal Our programme presents music appropriate to Easter by some of the foremost composers of the Iberian ‘golden age’, during the later sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Francisco Guerrero spent almost his entire career in the service of Seville Cathedral, as a singer, assistant chapelmaster, and then chapelmaster. Seville Cathedral…
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Oregon Arts Watch LIVE IN GREECE Concert Review
Oregon Arts Watch has a review up for last weekend’s LIVE IN GREECE concerts: “Suddenly, just over my right shoulder, the pure, radiant tones of the opening Processional Introit burst forth as Cappella Romana advanced up the center aisle of Portland’s Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Cathedral from the back, two by two. For the next…
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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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Looking Back at A Time For Life
As we look forward to our May 2014 performance of Robert Kyr’s A Time For Life with the Third Angle New Music Ensemble, have a look back at an Oregonian review of our world premiere concert: “During an hour of music, the eight excellent voices of Cappella Romana (sopranos DenBeste and Stephanie Kramer, altos Jo…
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