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Good Friday In Jerusalem Concert Program
Our concert features excerpts from the “Service of the Holy Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ” as it would have been celebrated in Jerusalem during the tenth century. The ancestor of the service celebrated in the modern Byzantine rite on Holy Thursday evening, this is a stational version of the office of early morning prayer
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Gifts of Securities to Cappella Romana
Yes, you can give Securities to Cappella Romana When you make a gift of appreciated securities you help Cappella Romana, and could receive a double tax benefit—a charitable deduction and avoidance of capital gains tax. Securities can be donated to the Annual Fund, to specific publications or to recording projects, to name just a few
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Echoes of the Renaissance — Program Notes
In his magisterial The Rise of European Music, 1380–1500, Reinhard Strohm traces the development and dissemination of complex styles of music written with multiple voice parts using measured (‘mensural’) notation that enabled precise rhythmic coordination of the voices. By the middle of the fifteenth century the most notable centers for the production of this polyphonic
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Hope and Light
Hope and Light Mystical Chamber Music by Arvo Pärt, Tikey Zes, and More Cappella Romana Soloists45th Parallel UniverseAlexander Lingas, music director In Arvo Pärt’s transcendent Stabat Mater and Tikey Zes’s luminous Hymn of Kassianí, voices and strings are united in their mystical vision of compassion and redemption. Other works open a window into the eternal, including
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Christmas in Ukraine
Holiday Concert Christmas in Ukraine Digital On Demand Purchase on-demand access through our premieres program Cappella Romana Marika KuzmaGuest Director Get ready to immerse yourself in the enchanting melodies of Ukraine this holiday season! A world of tradition and celebration awaits, including music by the renowned Ukrainian composer Dmitry Bortniansky, the Palestrina of the Slavic
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Sacro Monteverdi: Vox Luminis
Special Guest Concert Sacro Monteverdi Vox Luminis Belgium Lionel MeunierFounder & Director The world-renowned ensemble Vox Luminis from Belgium makes its Pacific Northwest début! Their singers and period instrument ensemble perform rapturous sacred works by Claudio Monteverdi. Monteverdi’s collection Selva morale e spirituale (The Virtuous and Spiritual Forest) forms the trunk of this program. Cappella Romana’s own Mark Powell
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Out of the Ashes of Smyrna: The Jewell of Asia Minor
Since the 18th century, the city of Smyrna, on the western shores of Asia Minor, was the most important commercial port in the Eastern Mediterranean. Through the early 20th century, both raw materials for industrial textiles as well as agricultural products were exported from Smyrna to the West. The resulting economic prosperity brought diverse populations
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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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Language in American Orthodox Music: Liturgical and Pastoral Perspectives
Please join us for a webinar on “Language in American Orthodox Music: Liturgical and Pastoral Perspectives” hosted by Fordham University’s Orthodox Christian Studies Center in a co-presentation with Cappella Romana. It has often been asserted that it is the tradition of the Orthodox Church to worship in the local language. Yet the historical reality has been
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Excitement Building for Hagia Sophia Virtual Performance
The excitement is building for our Hagia Sophia recreation concert at Stanford this season. So much so, that just this week, two different publications have featured it. Stanford Magazine goes into detail of how the concert came to be and how it works: “The first step to recreating the auditory experience of Hagia Sophia was
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Audiophile Audition calls Tikey Zes: Divine Liturgy a “Recording of the Highest Quality”
In a four-star review, Audiophile Audition calls new release, The Divine Liturgy, “An important … recording of the highest quality.” “Cappella Romana is the foremost ensemble in the United States promoting the heritage of Byzantine chant, and one of the finest in the world as well. … It’s not Super Audio format but it is
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Alexander Lingas’s Cappella Romana Playlist: The Akáthistos & Great Lent
Although the Coronavirus crisis is temporarily preventing our wonderful artists from gathering to sing for you, I will be creating a series of playlists featuring music taken not only from Cappella Romana’s commercially released CDs, but also from our archive of live recordings. This, my first playlist, features selections from two services of the Byzantine
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