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Taste of Byzantium Sold Out!
Saturday’s fundraiser concert A Taste of Byzantium has officially sold out, so we wanted to let you know and give you a hearty THANK YOU! For those that are coming, we’re featuring some of the silent auction items on our Facebook Page, so make sure to check back all week! Here are links to a…
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Looking Ahead…
The next Cappella Romana performance features Rachmaninoff’s 1910 a cappella work Divine Liturgy – The Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom. “Not for a long time…have I written anything with such pleasure.” —Sergei Rachmaninoff, 1910 Come and hear Rachmaninoff’s setting as it might have been sung in an actual service! Purchase Tickets Today Portland8pm, Fri., Jan. 11,…
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Cappella Romana Brings Medieval Byzantine Chant to London!
Cappella Romana London Residency: Medieval Byzantine Chant from the Holy Land Cappella Romana, the world’s leading early music vocal ensemble for the broad exploration of music of the Eastern Orthodox traditions, returns to London for the first time since 2009 when it was engaged by the Royal Academy of Arts for its mega-exhibition ‘Byzantium: 323-1453’.…
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Cappella Romana at the Priory Church of St. Bartholomew-the-Great
Cappella Romana Brings Medieval Byzantine Chant to London Cappella Romana, the world’s leading early music vocal ensemble for the broad exploration of music of the Eastern Orthodox traditions, returns to London for the first time since 2009 when it was engaged by the Royal Academy of Arts for its mega-exhibition ‘Byzantium: 323-1453’. Its founder and…
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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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Cappella Romana Seeking Operations Coordinator
Operations Coordinator Sought By Cappella Romana Cappella Romana seeks part-time Operations Coordinator The Operations Coordinator will assist the Executive Director in the day-to-day coordination and management of business and operational activities of Cappella Romana, including Artistic Administration, Box office assistance, Bookkeeping and general office management and administration. The Operations Coordinator must be able to work…
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Support Cappella Romana by December 31
“Kassianí’s time-defying flow of melodies imparts serene glimpses into eternity.” —Gramophone Magazine “The most beautiful concert experience in recent memory.” —Cappella Romana Patron Dear friend, I believe you’ve felt it: That moment when the music washes over you and an amazing calmness takes over. Your heartbeat slows. Your breathing gets deeper. You connect with something…
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Five Stars for Hymns of Kassianí
HRAudio.net gives Hymns of Kassianí a five-star rating in both performance and sonics! “The importance of this new release is to allow us to go back in time to discover more about the origins of sacred choral music, and – perhaps a revelation for uninitiated – that Hildegard von Bingen wasn’t the first female composer.…
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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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Byzantine Cooking Resources
Coming this weekend by livestream — Icons of Sound: Hagia Sophia Reimagined! For Saturday’s concert, consider cooking a Byzantine dish for before or after the livestream. Enjoy these select Byzantine cooking resources: What did Byzantine food taste like? (Getty Museum) Byzantine cuisine (Wikipedia) Select Byzantine and Byzantine-inspired Recipes godecookery.com And the excellent cookbook by Andrew…
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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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Christmas in Ukraine
Khrïstos razhdayetsia! Slavite yeho! Christ is born! Glorify Him! When Cappella Romana invited me to prepare this concert “Christmas in Ukraine,” a wealth of musical memories came into my imagination. Since I am of Ukrainian descent, I felt instant inspiration and also a sense of responsibility. How can I represent the many centuries of Ukraine’s sacred…
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