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Somewhere In Between: Ivan Moody’s Greek Liturgy
For someone familiar with Greek Orthodox liturgy, today’s performance will echo the experience of actual services, with abbreviations appropriate to a concert. At the same time, those new to the form may experience the performance as though it were liturgically complete even with the adjustments made for a concert context. Cappella Romana presents here the…
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Preview A Byzantine Emperor at King Henry’s Court
January 19–22, Cappella Romana performs “A Byzantine Emperor at King Henry’s Court” live in Eugene, Seattle, and Portland. January 20, Cappella Records releases the premiere recording of the program, and you can preview both today! Listen to three of the works from the concert and recording on Apple Music and More: “Cappella Romana’s founder and…
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Cappella Romana returns to Boston with The Byzantine Choral Inheritance
Cappella Romana Returns to Boston WithThe byzantine Choral Inheritance Boston Thursday 16 February 2023, 7:30 P.M.First church, Cambridge Greek Orthodox Music from the old and new worlds From Constantinople to California to Cambridge! Renowned vocal ensemble Cappella Romana will perform The Byzantine Choral Inheritance at First Church in Cambridge, February 16, 7:30pm. Tickets start at…
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Audition for Cappella Romana
Cappella Romana at the Cave of the Apocalypse on the Island of Patmos, 2011 The singers for each Cappella Romana project are chosen from an international pool by the ensemble’s Music Director, Dr. Alexander Lingas, according to the musical demands of the repertoire to be sung. Some programs may feature as few as 4 singers…
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Scholarship
Christians have worshipped primarily through the medium of song since Christian Antiquity, creating thereby spiritually and artistically rich traditions of liturgical singing that are comparable to iconography in their spiritual and artistic stature. It must be admitted, however, that the musical aspect of Orthodox and early Catholic traditions are poorly known and even less understood.…
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Leadership: Staff and Board
The leadership staff and board of Cappella Romana is comprised of highly talented musicians, artists, professionals, and community members. Get to know us, listen to our recordings, join us at a concert. Mark Powell, Executive Director Mark Powell has served Cappella Romana in multiple capacities, as a singer since 1995, as president of its board…
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Pentecost from the Traditions of Constantinople Program Notes
The J. Paul Getty Villa 17 & 18 May 2014 Cappella Romana Performs Medieval Byzantine Chant Program Pentecost from the Traditions of Constantinople The second part of our program features music for Pentecost, the Sunday fifty days after Easter on which Christians commemorate the descent of the Holy Spirit on the Apostles. The services for…
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Great and Holy Friday in Jerusalem Program Notes
The J. Paul Getty Villa 17 & 18 May 2014 Cappella Romana Performs Medieval Byzantine Chant Program Great and Holy Friday in Jerusalem In the year 637 AD the orthodox Christian Patriarch Sophronios (d. 638) surrendered Byzantine Jerusalem to the Arab Caliph Umar, inaugurating a period of Muslim rule in the Holy City that would…
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Review of A TIME FOR LIFE
Today’s Oregonian posted an excellent review of Cappella Romana’s program, A Time for Life. A PDF of that review can be viewed here: Review of A Time for Life, The Oregonian, November 5, 2007 Full text also here: ‘Time’ cries out for planet’s salvation Monday, November 05, 2007 DAVID STABLER The Oregonian Staff A tenor…
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Events at City University London
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEContact: Louise Gordon, Concerts Manager, +44 (0) 20 7040 8271, louise.gordon.1@city.ac.uk City University Brings ‘Voices of Byzantium’ to London ‘robust and intriguing music’—The Washington Post, 2 DEC. 06‘sung with such strength and commitment’ —Los Angeles Times, 12 DEC. 06 London. [12 February 2009] — In March 2009, the Department of Music at City…
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LIVE IN GREECE Preview
We’ve got a full preview of a track from our upcoming LIVE IN GREECE recording for you today. Take a listen to Frank Desby’s Apolytikion of the Holy Cross via SoundCloud: LIVE IN GREECE Track 7: Apolytikion of the Holy Cross Frank Desby (1922–92) provided much of the impetus in the mid-twentieth century for the…
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Cappella Romana 2026–27 Season
Chant Encounters The 2026–27 Season October 16–18, 2026 RACHMANINOFF: ALL NIGHT VIGIL NOVEMBER 13 & 14, 2026 THE TUDOR CHOIR DECEMBER 4–6, 2026 OLD SAINT NICK JANUARY 22 & 23, 2027 EPIPHANY MARCH 5 & 6, 2027 KASSIA MAY 14–16, 2027 TONGUES OF FIRE For 35 years, Cappella Romana has sung the ancient chant traditions…
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