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Support What You Love
In our final day (June 30), we have less than $5000 left to reach our fiscal year-end goal. Will you make a gift today to support the music you love? Beginning this year, we have a set of new benefits for all donors. Give $100, for example, and receive two passes to our new behind-the-scenes
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Choir & Organ Magazine Reviews Good Friday in Jerusalem
Choir & Organ Magazine gives five stars to our Good Friday In Jerusalem recording in their May/June Issue: “This ‘premiere in modern times’, revivified through extensive research, is true tingle-factor stuff: an austere, inexorable, mesmerising Crucifixion liturgy told in the 8th-and-9th-century Byzantine chant that once resounded within Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre, leading the
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Passion Week a MusicWeb Recording of the Month
MusicWeb International critic John Quinn names our Maximilian Steinberg: Passion Week a RECORDING OF THE MONTH! “Passion Week is one of the finest and most moving Orthodox settings that I’ve encountered and I’ve been excited by getting to know it. It’s particularly pleasing that this music should receive its first recording from such a fine
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John Michael Boyer Receives The Saint Romanos the Melodist Medallion
On June 30th, 2024, at The National Forum of Greek Orthodox Church Musicians’ Church Music Ministry Reception, His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America presented the Saint Romanos Medallion, the highest honor awarded to the church music ministry to Cappella Romana Associate Music Director John Michael Boyer for “his exceptional dedication to the Church and Her
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Thank YOU! Our Fundraiser Was A Success!
In June we set a goal to raise $25,000 to end our 2022-23 Season, and we are excited to share that we not only met but surpassed that goal! We are so grateful to people like you in California, Connecticut, Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Texas, and Washington, and
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Cappella Records Announces “Heaven and Earth” Release on October 14, 2022
Cappella Records is pleased to announce the October 14, 2022, two-disc release of Heaven and Earth, with Cappella Romana’s Associate Music Director John Michael Boyer leading the ensemble along with 45th Parallel Universe in John Tavener’s masterpiece for choir and string trio, Ikon of Light. The release also features the world premiere of Heaven and Earth: A Song of Creation, a unique collaborative setting
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Soma Christou Virtual Choir
Here is the Greek-American answer to Eric Whitacre’s Virtual Choir, presenting the Communion Verse for Pascha (Easter) sung by members of Greek Orthodox church choirs from around the country, “virtually conducted” by the composer of this setting, Dr. Tikey Zes. Cappella Romana has long been a champion of Dr. Zes’ work, including his 1991 Divine
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SB at the 2012 Reading and Leeds Festivals
SB is set to perform at The 2012 Reading and Leeds Festivals. The band will hit the main stage at the Reading Festival on Friday, August 24th and the Leeds Festival on Saturday, August 25th.
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Radiant Cloud in April
RADIANT CLOUDAlexander Lingas, dir. Luminous choral music by contemporary composers steeped in the Byzantine tradition. Featured works include: Radiant Cloud and the World Premiere of A Woman Clothed with the Sun, a setting from the Book of Revelation, by Michael Adamis and the “Benedictions” from the Requiem by Mikis Theodorakis, best known worldwide for his
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Christmas in the Summer: Preparing for Toensing’s Kontakion
In 2006 Cappella Romana was approached by the composer Richard Toensing to record a set of his Christmas carols and a new major work for double choir and soloists, The Kontakion of the Nativity of Christ, with a translation based on the English text by Fr. Ephrem Lash. Last night (24 July 2007) was the
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Cappella Romana presents a free open rehearsal for donors and subscribers, completes recording of Music for Christmas by Richard Toensing
For this remarkable project, Richard Toensing composed an ambitious new a cappella work for Cappella Romana, requiring two choirs (24 singers), three male soloists (the Magi), treble and baritone duet (Christ), and soprano soloist (the Mother of God). Entitled “The Kontakion of the Nativity of Christ,” Toensing set an English translation of the majority of
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Cappella Romana completes Finnish Recording sessions
Cappella Romana has completed another set of sessions for a future CD release, this time of music from the Finnish Orthodox Church. The photo here is from a free recital presented in advance of the sessions on Sunday, September 7, at St. Agatha’s Church in Sellwood, Portland.
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