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The Oregonian Names “A Time For Life” A Portland Best
The Oregonian‘s David Stabler released a list of top spring arts events for Portland, and next weekend’s performance of Robert Kyr’s A Time For Life is a “second season” best! “Kyr’s environmental oratorio weeps for the earth. In our vast and seemingly hopeless effort to save the planet, ‘A Time for Life’ is a note
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Portland Monthly Magazine Features Cappella Romana
Portland Monthly Magazine has published a list of Portland arts groups that Portlanders might take for granted, but are “beloved around the world,” and Cappella Romana is included in the list of five artists and ensembles: “Traveling more than any classical group in the region, Cappella Romana takes to the road for as many as
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Meet Vladimir Morosan
Meet our Passion Week, pre-concert lecturer, Vladimir Morosan courtesy of the Orthodox Arts Journal: Dr. Vladimir Morosan, Founder and President of Musica Russica, is one of the leading experts outside Russia in the fields of Russian choral music and Orthodox liturgical music. After completing his undergraduate degree in music at Occidental College, in Los Angeles,
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Image Journal reviews Angelic Light
ImageJournal.org’s Image Update features a great new review of Cappella Romana’s new compilation Angelic Light: Music from Eastern Cathedrals. Read an expert of the review right here, and then find the link to the full review on ImageJournal.org: “…The great news is that our local musical gem is recording music that can be heard anywhere
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Ivan Moody Guestblog: The Paschal Canon of St. John of Damascus
Composer, Ivan Moody The Paschal Canon of St John of Damascus encapsulates the theology, and the joy, of the Resurrection of Christ, the most important day of the Orthodox liturgical year. As the text has it in Fr Ephrem Lash’s translation, “This chosen and holy day is the first of Sabbaths, the Queen and Lady,
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The Oregonian highlights 2013 Regensburg Festival Appearance
The Oregonian highlights Cappella Romana’s upcoming trip to Regensburg, Germany for the Tage Alter Musik Festival in 2013: “Cappella Romana, the small Portland choir devoted to old and new Orthodox music, has been invited to a prestigious early music festival in Regensburg, Germany. They will perform May 17, 2013, making their German debut. Cappella Romana
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Meet Marcel Pérès
2012-2013 Season opener features guest conductor Marcel Pérès conducting “Santiago De Compostela: Medieval Latin Chant for St. James” in his Cappella Romana debut. Meet this celebrated conductor: “Marcel Pérès, perhaps the greatest iconoclast among the early music performers of his generation, challenges his audience to rethink how we hear musical repertories from the tenth to
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2012-2013 Season: From Constantinople to California
The Cappella Romana 2012-2013 Season comes full circle in June 2013 with the “From Constantinople to California” concert series! Not only will the season kick off with the release of the LIVE IN GREECE recording featuring the From Constantinople to California program, it will also end with performances of the program both in Portland and
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LIVE IN GREECE: From Constantinople to California – Part One
As we approach the release of LIVE IN GREECE: From Constantinople to California, we’ll be sharing some excerpts from the liner notes to give you a bit of background into the programming of this recording. From Constantinople to California: Cappella Romana was founded on the Pacific Coast of the USA in 1991 to explore, through
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LIVE IN GREECE: From Constantinople to California – Part Three
As we approach the release of LIVE IN GREECE: From Constantinople to California, we’ll be sharing some excerpts from the liner notes to give you a bit of background into the programming of this recording. Part One Part Two II – Modern Choral Settings of Byzantine Chant Under Venetian and later British rule the Ionian
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LIVE IN GREECE: From Constantinople to California – Part Five
As we approach the release of LIVE IN GREECE: From Constantinople to California, we’ll be sharing some excerpts from the liner notes to give you a bit of background into the programming of this recording. Part One Part Two Part Three Part Four Younger Byzantine Contemporaries Two younger contemporaries of Frank Desby who were strongly
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Release Day!!! Cappella Romana LIVE IN GREECE: From Constantinople to California available in stores now!
Cappella Romana LIVE IN GREECE: From Constantinople to California Recorded live on Paros, GreeceCR409 Alexander Lingas, Director Ancient Byzantine chants begin this 1,000-year journey from Constantinople to California, followed by musical encounters with Crusaders and Venetians, including Greek and Latin polyphony from Renaissance Crete. East meets West again at St. Sophia Cathedral in Los Angeles,
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