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Coming Next Week…
Enjoy this setting of Our Father from the Rachmaninoff Divine Liturgy as a teaser of what to expect next weekend: Purchase Tickets Today Portland8pm, Fri., Jan. 11, St. Mary’s CathedralSeattle8pm, Sat., Jan. 12, Holy Rosary Church, West SeattlePortland (matinée)3pm, Sun., Jan. 13, Trinity Episcopal Cathedral Free pre-concert talks one hour prior to each performance.
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Stream the Trisagion from The Divine Liturgy
The Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom — Trisagion Pre-Order Today! The Divine Liturgy is the principal Eucharistic service in the Orthodox Church, somewhat analogous to the Roman Catholic Mass. Dr. Tikey Zes (b. 1927) is the most prolific composer of Greek Orthodox liturgical music in America. This highly original choral setting of the Liturgy,…
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Cappella Romana to perform at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, CA
Cappella Romana to perform at the Loyala Marymount University Huffington Ecumenical Institute Loyola Marymount University’s Huffington Ecumenical Institute is hosting a symposium to examine the heritage of East and West liturgical music. Lectures, workshops,worship and fellowship are included in the program. From the Rising of The Sun to its Setting: Chant — The Common Inheritance…
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Benedict Sheehan Brings the Liturgy of Saint John Chrysostom to Life
“While listening, I closed my eyes and just let the voices of the Saint Tikhon Choir bring the liturgy alive in music. … In all honesty, the voices of the choir performing Sheehan’s setting gave me chills. This is an album I’ll be listening to often. I highly recommend this album to those who enjoy…
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Audiophile Audition Gives Five Stars to Lost Voices of Hagia Sophia
Audiophile Audition‘s Steven Ritter gives a ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ rating to our Lost Voices of Hagia Sophia recording! “This is the Byzantine chant album that aficionados have been waiting for and will be of interest far beyond the true believers. …the most exciting thing about this album is the reconstruction of the acoustical setting of Hagia Sophia,…
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Alexander Lingas’s Cappella Romana Playlist: Music for Easter Sunday
Welcome to the fourth playlist from the archives of Cappella Romana, we turn to music celebrating the Resurrection of Jesus on Easter Sunday, a feast called ‘Pascha’ in Greek and Slavonic. As a way of offering you my own seasonal greetings, I am concluding this week’s list with a choral setting of this hymn that…
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They Are At Rest – Program Notes
At the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918, an armistice was signed which brought to a close the greatest human conflict so far known to man. What had begun as a border dispute in the Balkan States of South-Eastern Europe in 1914, expected to last but a few weeks,…
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Ivor Gurney: “Since I Believe”
Choir & Organ Magazine has a wonderful feature on the recent publication of Ivor Gurney’s Since I Believe in God the Father Almighty Motet. Cappella Romana is excited to be giving the North American premiere performance on our They Are At Rest series November 9 and 11, 2018: “Composed in June 1925, the motet for…
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Oregon ArtsWatch Review for The Vigil
Oregon ArtsWatch contributor Friderike Heuer shares a review from our Sunday performance of The Vigil at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in Portland: “I cannot even remember the last time I had goosebumps like this while listening to live music.…I sat on a Sunday afternoon in a church attempting to hold back tears and racking my…
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Cappella Romana Welcomes Superstar Basso Profundo Glenn Miller for “The Vigil”
Among singers, they’re known as basso profundos. In Russian Orthodox music, they are referred to as oktavists. Whatever you call them, they are one of the rarest – and lowest – voice parts, often singing a full octave below the normal bass range, adding new dimension and depth to the sound of an ensemble. To…
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ArtsWatch Reviews Venice In The East
Bruce Browne reviewed Cappella Romana’s Saturday, April 28, 2018 performance of Venice in the East for Oregon ArtsWatch: Present were exquisite moments of choral artistry, impeccable tuning, bravura singing by all and thoughtful phrasing, especially by John Michael Boyer and Mark Powell, who together stood at the pinnacle of the solo work, especially many of…
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Northwest Focus features Ivan Moody: Akáthistos Hymn
In the lead-up to our Ivan Moody: The Akáthistos Hymn series, Seattle’s KING FM will be previewing the performance on the Northwest Focus program on Monday, March 12! Tune in at 8:30pm for a broadcast from the upcoming recording re-release! Rev’d Dr. Ivan Moody, British composer, conductor, and Orthodox priest, returns to direct his stunning…
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