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Portland Monthly Picks Live In Greece
We aren’t the only ones excited about next weekend’s Live In Greece performances. Portland Monthly has chosen next Sunday’s concert at the Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Cathedral as an “Editor’s Pick!” June 15-16 Cappella Romana Presents — Live in Greece: From Constantinople to California Join Cappella Romana on a 1,000-year journey from Constantinople to California.…
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LIVE IN GREECE: First Ode of the Canon Video
Music: First Ode of the Canon (From the Great Supplicatory Service to the Mother of God)Composer: Michael AdamisArtists: Cappella RomanaPerformed in the 6th-century baptistery of the Church of 100 Doors (The Ekatontapiliani on the Island of Paros) Download in iTunes Buy this recording from Amazon June 15-16 Cappella Romana Presents — Live in Greece: From Constantinople…
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LIVE IN GREECE: Communion for Sundays
Music: Communion for Sundays “Praise the Lord”Composer: Steven CardiasmenosArtists: Cappella RomanaPerformed live in the Church of the Life-Giving SpringAspro Chorio, Paros, GreeceSeptember 2011 Download in iTunes Buy this recording from Amazon June 15-16 Cappella Romana Presents — Live in Greece: From Constantinople to California Join Cappella Romana on a 1,000-year journey from Constantinople to California. Ancient…
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LIVE IN GREECE: Apolytikion of the Holy Cross
Music: Communion for Sundays “Praise the Lord”Composer: Steven CardiasmenosArtists: Cappella RomanaPerformed live in the Church of the Life-Giving SpringAspro Chorio, Paros, GreeceSeptember 2011 Download in iTunes Buy this recording from Amazon June 15-16 Cappella Romana Presents — Live in Greece: From Constantinople to California Join Cappella Romana on a 1,000-year journey from Constantinople to California. Ancient…
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Coming April 2014 — Passion Week
Passion Week by Maximilian Steinberg Sacred Music in Post-Revolutionary Russia This April, for the first time in recorded history, Cappella Romana presents the last major sacred work composed in Russia before Stalin’s 1932 crackdown: Passion Week by Maximilian Steinberg. You’ll gain insights into Steinberg’s complicated personal history: he was born into a Jewish family in…
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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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Heaven and Earth: Art of Byzantium from Greek Collections
The Byzantine Inheritance performances are a part of the National Gallery of Art’s celebrations around the new “Heaven and Earth: Art of Byzantium from Greek Collections” exhibition. From the National Gallery of Art Website: In the first-ever exhibition of Byzantine art at the Gallery, some 170 works of art, many never before lent to the…
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A Patriarch’s Chant: Athanasios V
The following is taken from guest-artist Achilleas Chaldaiakis’ fantastic program notes available for this weekend’s performances. A Patriarch’s Chant: Athanasios V The Patriarch of Constantinople Athanasios V is an exceptionally important Church figure, widely renowned in the relevant historical research. He was a Cretan; through historians he is described as “a wise man, whose outstanding prosperity…
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New Release — The Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom
Now Available! The Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom Cappella Romana Tikey Zes Dr. Tikey Zes (b. 1927) is the most prolific composer of Greek Orthodox liturgical music in America. This highly original Liturgy, which Zes dedicated to Cappella Romana, bears the marks of a composer long engaged with the traditions of Orthodox worship. Cumulatively…
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The Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom
The Divine Liturgy bearing the name of St. John Chrysostom (d. 407) is the form of the Eucharist celebrated most frequently in the modern Byzantine rite. Like the communion services of most other Christian traditions, it features two large sections: a service of the Word that climaxes with readings from the New Testament and concludes…
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The Divine Liturgy Of St. John Chrysostom — Liner Notes Part Two
John Sakellarides and Greek American Choral Music for the Divine Liturgy The first notated examples of polyphonic music for the Byzantine rite—that is, music employing more than one vocal part intended for worship by Eastern Orthodox and Greek Catholic Christians—appeared shortly before 1453 among the works of singers who served at the courts of the…
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The Divine Liturgy Of St. John Chrysostom — Liner Notes Part Three
A Second Generation of Greek American Church Musicians After the Second World War a second generation of Greek American church musicians emerged, some of whom had received training in Western art music at American universities. The composers among them soon began to recast the legacy of Sakellarides by rescoring his harmonized works idiomatically for mixed…
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