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Oregon Arts Watch Reviews A Time for Life
Oregon Arts Watch with a review from our A Time For Life concert in Portland: “… Kyr’s work really shines in the atmosphere it creates. The very beginning is understated, with strings alone. But as the voices come in, starting with the low tenor, the string harmony starts to take flight. A haunting spirituality arises,
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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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A TIME FOR LIFE (FILM PREMIERE)
Robert Kyr’s A Time for Life: FILM Cappella Romana Special launch event in collaboration with Anima Mundi Productions, on Sunday, April 18 at 5:30 Pacific Join us for a new multimedia video performance of Robert Kyr’s stunning environmental oratorio, A Time for Life, now reimagined with visuals of breathtaking landscapes created and curated by the composer.
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Oregon Days of Culture feature Cappella Romana Hagia Sophia Performance
Oregon Days of Culture and the Portland Tribune & Community Newspapers have a wonderful feature on the upcoming Stanford Residency concerts and the “Icons of Sound” project highlighting “The Sounds of Hagia Sophia.” Heavenly Experience: Vocal chamber ensemble Cappella Romana performs from Portland to Stanford to Greece “It is said that when the Slavic people
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Marcel Pérès offers program notes for Codex Calixtinus Concert
Ibi barbare gentesomnium mundi climatumcatervatim occurrunt,munera laudis Domino deferentes, Alleluia Foreign nations hasten therefrom all over the world,bringing with them gifts of praiseto the Lord. Alleluia!(First antiphon, Vespers of St James) Since the ninth century the apostle St James has been the object of great faith and fervour in the Western Christian world. Even today
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Cappella Romana Holy Week in Jerusalem Program Notes – Part Two
Saturday, February 2nd, the day after our (already sold-out) Bing Concert Hall debut, Cappella Romana will perform music composed for 8th and 9th-century celebrations of Holy Week in Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulcher amid the natural acoustics of the Stanford University Memorial Church. Great and Holy Friday in Jerusalem (Part Two) Stanford Memorial Church
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Cappella Romana 2025–26 Season
It’s About Time As Founder and Musical Director of the vocal ensemble Cappella Romana, it brings me great joy to introduce It’s About Time, our 2025–2026 season of concerts in the Pacific Northwest. Traversing time and space, we perform music ranging in mood from quiet contemplation to joyful ecstasy, capped off by a return visit from our amazing
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Keeping Up with the Venetians — Part One
Keeping Up with the Venetians Program Notes for Venetian Baroque: Galuppi + Vivaldi + Bortniansky The islands in the Venetian lagoon, which by the 8th century had banded together to ally themselves with the Empire of the Romans governed from Constantinople (Byzantium), quickly became one of the inhabited world’s great centers of power and wealth.
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Letter from Mark Powell, Executive Director
Introduction to Cappella Romana’s 30th Anniversary Season Dear Friends and Supporters, In late winter we usually are ready to share our next season with you, but given how this year has proceeded, we decided to wait until now to make any announcement. Over the last year, we have not lain dormant. Cappella Romana’s recording label
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KING FM Northwest Focus features Lost Treasures of Armenia
In the lead up to our Lost Treasures of Armenia series, Seattle’s KING FM will be previewing the performance on the Northwest Focus program Monday-Thursday this week (1/14-17/2019). Date Time Music Monday, January 14 9:19pm Adamis: Radiant Cloud Tuesday, January 15 8:00pm Dufay: Lamentatio Sanctae Matris Ecclesiae Constantinopolitanae Wed, January 16 9:19pm Zes: Cherubic Hymn
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The Oregonian Features “They Are At Rest”
The Oregonian interviews Cappella Romana executive director Mark Powell for a feature on our They Are At Rest series: Cappella Romana appears to be the only professional artistic organization in Portland giving a performance commemorating the 100th anniversary of World War I’s end. “This is the right thing for us to do,” Mark Powell, Cappella
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KING FM Northwest Focus features They Are At Rest
In the lead up to our They Are At Rest series, Seattle’s KING FM will be previewing the performance on the Northwest Focus program Monday-Thursday of next week (11/5-8/2018). Date Time Music Monday, November 5 8:08pm Parry: Songs of Farewell – There is an old belief Tuesday, November 6 8:02pm Parry: Songs of Farewell
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