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Make a gift by June 24 and it will be matched!
Just Two Days Left! Make A Gift Now! Midnight, June 30, marks the end of our fiscal year: and what a year it was! We are less than $9,000 away from our goal in our annual fund. With your help, we are going to make our goal. For today and tomorrow, new gifts will be
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Alexander Lingas Performs The Kontakion in Service of Thanksgiving for the Life and Work of Sir John Tavener
Μετὰ τῶν Ἁγίων ἀνάπαυσον, Χριστε, τὴν ψυχὴν τοῦ δούλου σου, ἔνθα οὐκ ἔστι πόνος, οὐ λύπη, οὐ στεναγμός, ἀλλὰ ζωὴ ἀτελεύτητος. With the Saints give rest, O Christ, to the soul of your servant, where there is no toil, nor grief, nor sighing, but everlasting life. Cappella Romana Artistic Director, Alexander Lingas, served as one
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Memory Eternal: Lycourgos Angelopoulos
A great friend of Cappella Romana, the Byzantine cantor and teacher Lycourgos Angelopoulos died on Sunday. Memory Eternal. Mr. Angelopoulos was the teacher of Dr. Alexander Lingas, and in many respects was the inspiration for the founding of Cappella Romana. John Michael Boyer was also his student. Both Dr. Lingas and Mr. Boyer will attend
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From His All-Holiness +BARTHOLOMEW Patriarch of Constantinople and New Rome: A Time for Life
A letter of commendation from His All-Holiness +BARTHOLOMEW Ecumenical Patriarch and of Constantinople and New Rome For the work “A Time for Life” by Robert Kyr in concert this May 2 and 3 To Dr. Alexander Lingas, Artistic Director of Cappella Romana, our beloved son in the Lord: grace and peace from on high. It
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The Oregonian Names “A Time For Life” A Portland Best
The Oregonian‘s David Stabler released a list of top spring arts events for Portland, and next weekend’s performance of Robert Kyr’s A Time For Life is a “second season” best! “Kyr’s environmental oratorio weeps for the earth. In our vast and seemingly hopeless effort to save the planet, ‘A Time for Life’ is a note
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Classical Voice North America Reviews Passion Week Premiere
Seattle critic, Philippa Kiraly, has a fantastic feature and review of our recent World Premiere performance of Maximilian Steinberg’s Passion Week in Classical Voice North America: “Sometimes it sounded stern or foreboding, sober or somber, at other times brighter and joyful, or hypnotic, peaceful, and uplifting, or solemn and reverential, even exalted in Great Saturday’s
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Excerpt of Maximilian Steinberg’s Passion Week
—UPDATE—- Buy The CD & The VINYL Today! Read the review: The first review for the world premiere performance of Maximilian Steinberg’s Passion Week comes from The Wall Street Journal: “At St. Mary’s, the opening verses of the alleluia of ‘Passion Week,’ intoned in Church Slavonic by one of Cappella’s stentorian bass voices, seemed to
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The Wall Street Journal Reviews Passion Week!
The first review for the world premiere performance of Maximilian Steinberg’s Passion Week comes from The Wall Street Journal: “At St. Mary’s, the opening verses of the alleluia of ‘Passion Week,’ intoned in Church Slavonic by one of Cappella’s stentorian bass voices, seemed to portend another dose of the ensemble’s usual hieratic Byzantine and Russian
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Sneak preview of “A TIME FOR LIFE”
Here are some of the texts from Robert Kyr’s A TIME FOR LIFE: I. “O Creator:Look at our brokenness. In all creation,Only the human familyHas strayed from the Sacred Way. O Creator:Teach us love, compassion, and honor,So we may heal the earth.So we may heal each other.” –Ojibway Prayer, adapted by Robert Kyr II. “O
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Fr. Ivan Moody concelebrates at St. John the Baptist Greek Orthodox Church
Fr. Ivan Moody (second from the right) concelebrated the Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom at St. John the Baptist Greek Orthodox Church on Sunday morning, January 6, 2008. In addition to serving the liturgy, Fr. Ivan participated in the feast of Theophany, the Baptism of Christ in the River Jordan, which culminated in the
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Alexander Lingas and John M. Boyer presenting at the Axion Estin Symposium in New York
This week, the Axion Estin Foundation is holding its second conference in New York with the title “Building a Byzantine Choir.” Both Dr. Alexander Lingas and John M. Boyer will be key contributors to the event. Dr. Alexander Lingas will be assisting Lycourgos Angelopoulos in his three-day workshop entitled “Building a Byzantine Choir”. Dr. Lingas
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Cappella Romana in the New York Review of Books
Cappella Romana and its founder and artistic director Alexander Lingas were lauded in the New York Review of Books this week. Read the full review [subscription]. Or buy it on the newsstands.The New York Review of Books, Volume 55, Number 14 · September 25, 2008 Brilliant, Beautiful & ByzantineBy G.W. Bowersock Byzantium: The Surprising Life
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