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“The Green Patriarch,” Cappella Romana, And a Time For life
Before climate change became a pressing item on the global agenda, signs of human abuse of the natural environment had prompted efforts in religious communities throughout the world to recover spiritually grounded notions of human stewardship within creation. For Orthodox Christianity, this process began in earnest during the second half of the tenure of His…
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Utrecht Early Music Festival Review
“For centuries Venice was politically and economically one of the most important centers of Europe, which led to a multitude of relations, for instance to the East and its dominant Byzantine culture. Due to political developments residents of eastern areas also settled in Venice, including Greeks who took their own version of the Christian faith…
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Replay our AllClassical FM Performance
Alexander Lingas led singers from Cappella Romana in a performance of music by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Dmitry Bortniansky, and Maximilian Steinberg on AllClassical FM yesterday (2/4), and if you missed it, you’re in luck as you can listen on the Thursdays@Three Archive! Photos from the performance: Cappella Romana presents Maximilian Steinberg’s Passion Week, a collection of…
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Singer Spotlight: Meet Kristen Buhler
Our Singer Spotlight series continues with Kristen Buhler! What led you to singing professionally? I’ll never forget watching Choral Cross-Ties sing Samuel Barber’s Agnus Dei. I was a senior at Clackamas High School at the time, and heavily involved in choir and theater. I was enthralled with the powerful, emotional singing, and moved to tears. After…
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Classical Net Reviews Tikey Zes: The Divine Liturgy
Classical Net‘s Brian Wigman with a fantastic review for our Tikey Zes: The Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom recording: “Led by two Greek Orthodox clergy, this new look at The Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom is nothing short of ravishing. The beautifully recorded sound allows you to hear just how good these singers…
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Music from Mt. Sinai: Recorded!
Cappella Romana’s program “Mt. Sinai: Frontier of Byzantium” was recorded last week, from August 20 through August 25, in the extraordinary acoustics of Holy Rosary Church in West Seattle. Alexander Lingas (center) led a nine-member ensemble in chants from the monastery of St. Catherine at Mt. Sinai in Egypt, featuring music for St. Catherine followed…
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Cappella Romana to sing Divine Liturgy at St. George’s Orthodox Church, Portland
Cappella Romana, Portland’s professional vocal ensemble of international acclaim specializing in music of the Orthodox Church, will sing the Divine Liturgy at St. George’s Antiochian Orthodox Church in Portland, Oregon, this Sunday, October 5, at 10:00am. The ensemble will be led by John Michael Boyer, Protopsaltis (Chief Cantor) of the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of San…
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Ivan Moody Talks Arctic Light with Fanfare
Ivan Moody talks about Cappella Romana’s latest release, Arctic Light with Fanfare Magazine‘s James Altena. Read a couple of the questions below and find the full interview on the Fanfare website Fanfare: How did your particular association with the Cappella Romana come about, and what led to the recording of your Arctic Light CD with…
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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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Cappella Romana to Receive $15,000 Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts
San Francisco, Calif.—National Endowment for the Arts Acting Chairman Mary Anne Carter has approved more than $80 million in grants as part of the Arts Endowment’s second major funding announcement for fiscal year 2019. Included in this announcement is an Art Works grant of $15,000 to Cappella Romana to support its ongoing concert series in…
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Psaltikon: The Day of Resurrection
The Historical Development of Easter The celebration of Easter (i.e., Pascha) for Orthodox Christians commences on Saturday morning with a Vesperal Liturgy that comprises psalms, hymns, and Old Testament readings, followed by the Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom. Pascha is formally inaugurated several hours later, at midnight, in a rush of blazing candles, exuberant…
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Oregon Arts Watch Review for “A Song of Creation”
Cappella Romana’s performance…was an electrifying, bristlingly intense superabundance of laser-beam monody and…florid counterpoint in the Eastern Orthodox style. … Here, the modern music was a vivid variety of sacred choral music by contemporary composers Matthew Arndt, John Michael Boyer, Alexander Khalil, Kurt Sander, Richard Toensing, and Tikey Zes. The six composers, according to the program,…
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