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Director Update – Associate Music Director John Michael Boyer to conduct Rautavaara All-Night Vigil in Portland and Seattle
John Michael Boyer will conduct Cappella Romana in this week’s performances of the All-Night Vigil by Einojuhani Rautavaara, replacing Timo Nuoranne. Nuoranne’s visa has been held up at the US Consulate in Frankfurt, Germany, in part due to a State Department delay in the days leading to the inauguration. Film: John Michael Boyer in rehearsal
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Cyprus Named a Recording of the Year
Order Now MusicWeb International critic Johan van Veen names our Cyprus: Between Greek East & Latin West a 2016 Recording of the Year! “Cappella Romana is an ensemble which specializes in early and contemporary music of the Christian East and West. This explains that the programme recorded here sounds very idiomatic. The singing is impressive
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Good Friday In Jerusalem: Musical Time Travel
Oregon Artswatch breaks down our Good Friday In Jerusalem Concert saying, “Vocal ensemble’s Passion performance transports listeners to millennium-old sacred service”: “On a strictly sonic level, the concert at Portland’s Trinity Episcopal Cathedral was magnificent … As with last year’s concerts of Finnish Orthodox music, it was especially satisfying to hear the singers perform music
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Good Friday in Jerusalem a “Home Run”
The “Almost Rational” blogger, Steven Bilow, calls Good Friday In Jerusalem a “Home Run” in his review: “Cappella Romana’s Good Friday in Jerusalem is a superb example of just how lovely this music can be. It was recorded in a Church at Stanford and engineered by some clearly acoustically savvy members of Stanford’s Center for
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Orthodox Arts Journal Review for Good Friday
The Orthodox Arts Journal asks “How can music be alive?” in On History and Tradition: A Review of Cappella Romana’s “Good Friday in Jerusalem”. “Good Friday in Jerusalem is no exception to the level of quality that audiences have come to expect from Cappella Romana’s recordings; the singing on the disc is at once rich,
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July 4th Sale!
Save $10 per ticket to see The Tudor Choir in Portland in Sections A or B with coupon code “JULY4”. Valid until midnight on July 4! Buy Now and Save! Cappella Romana presents a festive summer concert Saturday, 26 July 2014, at St. Mary’s Cathedral celebrating Bach and his predecessors of the late-Renaissance and early-Baroque,
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Looking back at Cappella Romana in Greece
Now that LIVE IN GREECE is officially released, we’re taking the rest of the time this week to look back at our time on the tour when we made the recording. Cappella Romana on National Greek Television: Tour Video: Cappella Romana LIVE IN GREECE: From Constantinople to California Ancient Byzantine chants begin this 1,000-year journey
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None For The Worse features Divine Liturgy of Saint John Chrysostom
Thanks to the None for the Worse blog for these kind words on our recording The Divine Liturgy of our Father Among the Saints John Chrysostom: “If you are looking for an English audio version of the Orthodox Church’s Divine Liturgy, then look no further than Cappella Romana’s The Divine Liturgy of our Father Among
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Celebrate Pascha! Also In Mulieribus this Sunday!
Happy Pascha: May 5 Cappella Romana sings the opening of Semeron krematai in the medieval melody from Jerusalem, during recording sessions at Stanford University in February, 2013. Σήμερον κρεμᾶται ἐπὶ ξύλου, ὁ ἐν ὕδασι τὴν γῆν κρεμάσας. Today he who hung the earth upon the waters is hung upon a TreeHe who is King of
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Fanfare Magazine reviews Mt. Sinai: Frontier of Byzantium and Live in Greece!
A double-feature Fanfare review by J.F. Weber features our LIVE IN GREECE and Mt. Sinai: Frontier of Byzantium recordings. Mt. Sinai: Frontier of Byzantium “The chants for these two services come from a variety of sources in or close to the 14th century, including works by such well-known composers as John Koukouzeles and Manuel Chrysaphes.
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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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Artslandia Interviews Alexander Lingas
Listen to Artslandia’s Susannah Mars interview with Alexander Lingas about our 25th Anniversary and this weekend’s New Mystics program on “Adventures in Artslandia”: http://artslandia.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Dr.-Lingas.mp3 New Mystics From East & West Our season closes with a program of music by two important modern voices: the Greek Orthodox composer Michael Adamis and Scottish Catholic James MacMillan. The
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