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Friday concert to sell out
The Portland concert of ARCTIC LIGHT is going to sell out, so we have opened the balcony and transept seating for overflow as required. These seats have an obstructed view. To have the best experience for Friday night’s concert, bear in mind that parking is limited around St. Mary’s Cathedral. Please come early, and use…
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Be Radiant, O Peoples!
Working under Muslim rule in and around Jerusalem during the 8th century AD, St. John of Damascus—defender of icons, theologian, poet and musician—composed a radiant hymn for Easter Sunday morning, his Paschal Canon. Over the centuries his joyful verses praising the Resurrection of Christ have been adapted to countless languages and musical styles across a…
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Pre-Order LIVE IN GREECE on Amazon!
Cappella Romana: LIVE IN GREECE is less than three weeks from its release! And now you can pre-order it on Amazon.com (click the image below to pre-order today)!
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LIVE IN GREECE Featured by Allegro Classical
LIVE IN GREECE is a “Featured Release” on the Allegro Classical website! Take a look: Preview Track 7: Apolytikion of the Holy Cross via SoundCloud Order today via: Amazon.com Allegro Classics CappellaRomana.org
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You Are Invited To “A Taste Of Byzantium” & The Sounds of Hagia Sophia
Honorary Chairman His Eminence Metropolitan Gerasimos of San Francisco and the Board of Directors of Cappella Romana Invite You To: A Taste of Byzantium & The Sounds of Hagia Sophia Saturday, November 3, 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.RSVP by October 1 Presenting Stanford University’s Icons of Sound project, a Virtual Performancece in 1000 A.D. Constantinople.…
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Last Day for Taste of Byzantium Discount!
Today is the last day to register for the “A Taste of Byzantium and the Sounds of Hagia Sophia” concert at a discount! Register at $100/person today, or $125/person afterwards. Click here to register! Saturday, November 3, 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Presenting Stanford University’s Icons of Sound project, a Virtual Performance in 1000 A.D.…
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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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Blu-Ray Review of Benedict Sheehan: Liturgy
Blu-Ray.com reviews Cappella Records’ new release of the Saint Tikhon Choir and Benedict Sheehan‘s recording, Benedict Sheehan: Liturgy of Saint John Chrysostom: “Sheehan’s approach certainly harkens back to longstanding choral traditions in Russia and environs, and as such, there’s often a dark, almost foreboding, ambience to some of the massed lower sonorities he exploits. … If…
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Kastalsky Requiem: Program Notes
Vasily Polikarpovich Titov (c.1650–c.1715) – Cherubic Hymn; Megalynarion Vasily Titov was one of two leading composers of Russian Baroque music, the other being Nikolai Diletsky (c. 1630–80). Titov’s life and work mark the mid-point of the process of Russia’s musical Westernization, which gained new momentum during the reign of Tsar Peter the Great (1689 –1725).…
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Why Is There Water Dripping down My Face? A Night at Pop-Up Magazine.
“my whole body shivered and the tears started up.” Review from the Stranger, Seattle: Still, it wasn’t just the sad stories that triggered crying. Sam Harnett brought along the Cappella Romana choir, a vocal ensemble based in Portland that sings ancient religious chants. The singers were brilliant on their own, but then Harnett told us…
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Meet Blake Applegate, guest conductor of “Ave Maria”
Blake Applegate is one of Cappella Romana’s original singers, having taken part in the ensemble’s first concert in 1991. He is Director of Cantores in Ecclesia, assuming leadership of the organization upon the retirement of his father, Dean Applegate, in the spring of 2010. Prior to his appointment as Director, Blake served as Assistant Director,…
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The SunBreak Reviews “They Are At Rest”
Portland’s Cappella Romana stepped away from its usual programming of Orthodox chant Friday night to sing a concert of music remembering the Armistice of 1918 and what it meant to the survivors. This was not by any means a rejoicing for the Armistice, but nor was it one of sorrow and anguish for the dead and wounded…Rather it was…
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