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Looking Ahead…
The next Cappella Romana performance features Rachmaninoff’s 1910 a cappella work Divine Liturgy – The Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom. “Not for a long time…have I written anything with such pleasure.” —Sergei Rachmaninoff, 1910 Come and hear Rachmaninoff’s setting as it might have been sung in an actual service! Purchase Tickets Today Portland8pm, Fri., Jan. 11,
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Cappella Romana Stanford Residency – This Weekend
This weekend: The Northwest-based vocal ensemble Cappella Romana offers two quite distinct programs and experiences in two venues. At Bing Concert Hall, in collaboration with faculty in Art & Art History and the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA), Cappella Romana performs Byzantine Chant and contemporary works amid acoustics electronically enhanced to
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Free Season Preview!
Free Season Preview Concerts This Sunday, September 8! Season Previews at at Middle Eastern Festival, St. George Orthodox Church This Sunday, 8 September at 2:00pm and 4:30pm Selections from and related to Cappella Romana’s 2013-14 Season: Byzantine Chant Music of Orthodox Finland Russian Orthodox choral works Music for the Environment Also includes selections from the
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A Big Thank You To the Regional Arts and Culture Council
A sincere thank you to the Regional Arts and Culture Council and the Work for Art program for your commitment to the arts in our region. The general operating support provided by the public and granted through RACC provides essential funds for Cappella Romana (and the nearly 50 other organizations in our region) to make
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A Time For Life — Structure
The composite text for A Time for Life was adapted from a wide range of sources that explore the relationship of humanity to nature. The work is structured in three large-scale parts, as follows: Part I: Creation In the first part, the nature of creation is celebrated through praise for the Creator and through rejoicing
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Help Us Ring In the New Year!
Help us ring in the new year right! Make or increase your gift to Cappella Romana by midnight tonight and the Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund will match your gift! If you have already made a new gift to support Cappella Romana’s important work in music in the Orthodox inheritance, THANK YOU! Give Now!
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Byzantine Cooking Resources
Coming this weekend by livestream — Icons of Sound: Hagia Sophia Reimagined! For Saturday’s concert, consider cooking a Byzantine dish for before or after the livestream. Enjoy these select Byzantine cooking resources: What did Byzantine food taste like? (Getty Museum) Byzantine cuisine (Wikipedia) Select Byzantine and Byzantine-inspired Recipes godecookery.com And the excellent cookbook by Andrew
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Meet Blake Applegate, guest conductor of “Ave Maria”
Blake Applegate is one of Cappella Romana’s original singers, having taken part in the ensemble’s first concert in 1991. He is Director of Cantores in Ecclesia, assuming leadership of the organization upon the retirement of his father, Dean Applegate, in the spring of 2010. Prior to his appointment as Director, Blake served as Assistant Director,
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The SunBreak Reviews “They Are At Rest”
Portland’s Cappella Romana stepped away from its usual programming of Orthodox chant Friday night to sing a concert of music remembering the Armistice of 1918 and what it meant to the survivors. This was not by any means a rejoicing for the Armistice, but nor was it one of sorrow and anguish for the dead and wounded…Rather it was
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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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The Psalm 103 Project
Heaven and Earth: A Song of Creation 12-14 Oct, 2018 TICKETS & INFO Cappella Romana’s Heaven and Earth: A Song of Creation Series (October 12-14, 2018) is a collaboration with the Saint John of Damascus Society. A musical meditation on Psalm 103 (“Bless the Lord, O my soul”), the Orthodox Vesperal Psalm, the program premieres
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