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Portland Gala Speakers Announced!
RSVP today for A Night on the Aegean! Purchase tickets online or call 503.236.8202 RSVPs welcome as long as space is available or until Sept. 19th Portland Gala Guest Speakers: Fr. John Bakas Dean of the Cathedral of St. Sophia in Los Angeles, CA Founder of Camp AGAPE ‘Kids ‘n Cancer’ program President of the
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AllMusic Reviews Good Friday In Jerusalem
AllMusic.com’s James Manheim has a new review for our Good Friday In Jerusalem release! “It takes a good deal of scholarly effort to reconstruct a program like this from manuscripts in various places (some are Armenian) and at various levels of notational detail. The result, though, is spectacular. The chants were sung (if this reconstruction
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Throwback Thursday — A Time for Life a Best of 2007
A little “Throwback Thursday” post — The Oregonian world premiere performance of Robert Kyr’s A Time for Life named a “Best of 2007” by critic David Stabler: “Robert Kyr, among the country’s more socially active composers, mourned our planet with a gorgeous environmental oratorio that flooded St. Mary’s Cathedral with rapturous lyricism and a whiff
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“Lovely becomes transcendent” – Cappella Romana in Playbill
“Dust particles pumped onto the stage swirl in golden light. The choir intakes breath again, but this time, the reverberation transports the entire audience to Turkey. They sing and it’s 537 A.D. This is what it must have felt like—nearly. Lovely becomes transcendent.” Read the whole review of Cappella Romana in Pop-Up Magazine here. CAPPELLA
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Good Friday In Jerusalem Liner Notes
In the year 637 AD the orthodox Christian Patriarch Sophronios (d. 638) surrendered Byzantine Jerusalem to the Arab Caliph Umar, inaugurating a period of Muslim rule in the Holy City that would last until its conquest by Latin Crusaders in 1099. Although subject to tribute, Jerusalem’s Christian inhabitants retained the right to continue celebrating both
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Passion and Resurrection
Ivan Moody (1964–2024) Passion And Resurrection Cappella Romana+ In MediO+ 45th Parallel Universe Alexander LingasFounder & Director Cappella Romana and In Medio (John Eisemann, director) form a choir of over 40 singers to perform Ivan Moody’s powerful oratorio Passion and Resurrection. English cantillation of Holy Week’s drama mixes with soul-stirring Orthodox hymns sung in Slavonic, Greek, and English, accompanied by
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Requiem for the Forgotten
Frank La Rocca (b. 1951) Requiem For The Forgotten with Josef Rheinberger’s Mass for Double Choir DIGITAL PREMIERE Available on-demand now Cappella Romana+ 45th Parallel Universe Richard SparksGuest Conductor Requiem for the Forgotten by Frank La Rocca for choir, organ, and strings commemorates the displaced and the homeless, championing the inherent dignity of every person. The
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Canon for Racial Reconciliation
Isaac Cates & Nicholas Reeves Canon for Racial Reconciliation Cappella Romana Isaac Cates & Anthony MaglioneGuest Conductors Experience a groundbreaking fusion of traditions with the Pacific Northwest première of the complete Canon for Racial Reconciliation for choir and gospel instrument ensemble. Isaac Cates (Gospel music) and Nicholas Reeves (Orthodox music) co-composed an unforgettable score to African American
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Lusitano: Black Composers of the Renaissance
Marian Consort Sings Lusitano: Black Composer of the Renaissance The Marian Consort United Kingdom Rory McCleeryFounder & Director Embark on a journey to 16th-century Portugal with music by Vicente Lusitano (1520–1561), the first published Black composer. The Marian Consort (UK) is the world’s leading ensemble for the music of Lusitano, led by Alexander Lingas’s good friend Rory
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Sacro Monteverdi: Vox Luminis
Special Guest Concert Sacro Monteverdi Vox Luminis Belgium Lionel MeunierFounder & Director The world-renowned ensemble Vox Luminis from Belgium makes its Pacific Northwest début! Their singers and period instrument ensemble perform rapturous sacred works by Claudio Monteverdi. Monteverdi’s collection Selva morale e spirituale (The Virtuous and Spiritual Forest) forms the trunk of this program. Cappella Romana’s own Mark Powell
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Out of the Ashes of Smyrna
Out of the Ashes of Smyrna Tour Cappella Romana John Michael BoyerAssociate Director The acclaimed ensemble Cappella Romana (“simply beautiful” New York Times) comes to Boston and New Orleans this November. Led by John Michael Boyer, associate music director, they will sing Byzantine Chant at the beautifully renovated Dormition Church in Somerville and one of
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Leadership: Staff and Board
The leadership staff and board of Cappella Romana is comprised of highly talented musicians, artists, professionals, and community members. Get to know us, listen to our recordings, join us at a concert. Alexander Lingas, Music Director and Founder Alexander Lingas is Music Director of Cappella Romana, which he founded in 1991 to explore through scholarship
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