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About Eastertide guest conductor Owen Rees
Monday, we featured our 2013 Eastertide concert series featuring guest conductor Owen Rees, and today we’d like to share more about this exciting guest! Owen Rees: Owen Rees is both performer and scholar, his scholarship consistently informing his performances. Through his extensive work as a choral director, he has brought to the concert hall and…
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You Are Invited To “A Taste Of Byzantium” & The Sounds of Hagia Sophia
Honorary Chairman His Eminence Metropolitan Gerasimos of San Francisco and the Board of Directors of Cappella Romana Invite You To: A Taste of Byzantium & The Sounds of Hagia Sophia Saturday, November 3, 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.RSVP by October 1 Presenting Stanford University’s Icons of Sound project, a Virtual Performancece in 1000 A.D. Constantinople.…
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Cappella Romana at the Saint George Middle Eastern Festival
Coming This Sunday in Portland: Visit StGeorgePortland.org for more information!
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In Communion Features Angelic Light as Recommended Reading
In Communion, a site of the Orthodox Peace Fellowship, has published a 2012 list of “Recommended Reading” and included our recent release “Angelic Light.” “The famous line from the first Blues Brothers movie: AWe have both kinds of music”—in that case, Country and West-ern—could also apply to Capella Romana. Under the leadership of founder and…
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Last Day for Taste of Byzantium Discount!
Today is the last day to register for the “A Taste of Byzantium and the Sounds of Hagia Sophia” concert at a discount! Register at $100/person today, or $125/person afterwards. Click here to register! Saturday, November 3, 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Presenting Stanford University’s Icons of Sound project, a Virtual Performance in 1000 A.D.…
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Coming Soon – Santiago De Compostela
We’re only a month away from the start of the 2012-2013 Season as Marcel Pérès makes his Northwest and Cappella Romana debut directing an all-male chant ensemble in a program of medieval latin hymnody for St. James, sung directly from facsimilies of the Codex Calixtinus. This is the medieval manuscript that was only recently recovered…
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Oregon Arts Watch Reviews Choral Glory
Photo courtesy of Oregon ArtsWatch Oregon ArtsWatch with a review of our recent collaboration with the Portland Baroque Orchestra — Choral Glory! “It didn’t take long for this new Oregon classical music season to produce the first truly great performance I’ve heard this fall. Friday night’s concert featuring the superb Portland choir Cappella Romana and…
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About Ensemble Organum
We are very excited about our upcoming concert featuring Marcel Pérès, so we wanted to share a little about his own ensemble — Ensemble Organum! The Organum Ensemble was founded in 1982 by Marcel Pérès at Sénanque Abbay (France) and has been supported since 1984 by the Fondation Royaumont. The Ensemble develops programmes which combine…
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More on Ensemble Organum and Marcel Peres
About Ensemble Organum’s last record: Requiem of Divitis (16th century) For thirty years now, the vocal ensemble Organum has slowly but surely, far from the eye of the public at large, pieced together a veritable history of the singing of sacred music. With this new disc, Organum adds yet another layer to the knowledge of…
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Taste of Byzantium Sold Out!
Saturday’s fundraiser concert A Taste of Byzantium has officially sold out, so we wanted to let you know and give you a hearty THANK YOU! For those that are coming, we’re featuring some of the silent auction items on our Facebook Page, so make sure to check back all week! Here are links to a…
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A little about the Codex Calixtinus
A little about the Codex Calixtinus: The Codex Calixtinus is an illuminated manuscript compiled by French scholar Aymeric Picaud between 1135 and 1139. The Codex has been held in the archives of the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela since 1150, and was intended as an anthology for pilgrims following the “Way of St. James” to…
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