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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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Throwback Thursday — A Time for Life a Best of 2007
A little “Throwback Thursday” post — The Oregonian world premiere performance of Robert Kyr’s A Time for Life named a “Best of 2007” by critic David Stabler: “Robert Kyr, among the country’s more socially active composers, mourned our planet with a gorgeous environmental oratorio that flooded St. Mary’s Cathedral with rapturous lyricism and a whiff
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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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Portland Monthly Magazine Features Cappella Romana
Portland Monthly Magazine has published a list of Portland arts groups that Portlanders might take for granted, but are “beloved around the world,” and Cappella Romana is included in the list of five artists and ensembles: “Traveling more than any classical group in the region, Cappella Romana takes to the road for as many as
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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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Meet Vladimir Morosan
Meet our Passion Week, pre-concert lecturer, Vladimir Morosan courtesy of the Orthodox Arts Journal: Dr. Vladimir Morosan, Founder and President of Musica Russica, is one of the leading experts outside Russia in the fields of Russian choral music and Orthodox liturgical music. After completing his undergraduate degree in music at Occidental College, in Los Angeles,
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Singing Divine Liturgy at St. George’s Antiochian Orthodox Church, Portland (A report)
Cappella Romana members John S. Boyer, David Krueger, Les Green, Mark Powell, John Michael Boyer, LeaAnne DenBeste, Catherine van der Salm, Christina Abdul-Karim, and Jo Routh sang the service of the Divine Liturgy at St. George’s Antiochian Orthodox Church, Portland, Oregon, on October 5, 2008. Byzantine chant in English formed the basis for the service
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Fall of Constantinople Reviewed in Gramophone
The CD of Cappella Romana’s most popular and critically acclaimed program, The Fall of Constantinople, has received a review in the April 2009 edition of Gramophone magazine. [Link to Cappella Romana’s CD Store] The review hasn’t yet appeared in the Gramophone online reviews, but do find it in print at your local music or magazine
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The Oregonian highlights 2013 Regensburg Festival Appearance
The Oregonian highlights Cappella Romana’s upcoming trip to Regensburg, Germany for the Tage Alter Musik Festival in 2013: “Cappella Romana, the small Portland choir devoted to old and new Orthodox music, has been invited to a prestigious early music festival in Regensburg, Germany. They will perform May 17, 2013, making their German debut. Cappella Romana
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Meet Marcel Pérès
2012-2013 Season opener features guest conductor Marcel Pérès conducting “Santiago De Compostela: Medieval Latin Chant for St. James” in his Cappella Romana debut. Meet this celebrated conductor: “Marcel Pérès, perhaps the greatest iconoclast among the early music performers of his generation, challenges his audience to rethink how we hear musical repertories from the tenth to
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2012-2013 Season: Rachmaninoff Liturgy
Sergei Rachmaninoff – The Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom • ЛИТУРГИЯ ИОАННА ЗЛАТОУСТА OP. 31 Director: Alexander Lingas Following three sold-out performances last season of Rachmaninoff’s All-Night Vigil (“Vespers”), this year Cappella Romana presents Rachmaninoff’s first major a cappella work, his 1910 Divine Liturgy. Additional hymns and psalms set by composers such as Kastalsky, Tchaikovsky,
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2012-2013 Season: Renaissance Easter in Spain & Portugal
Owen Rees EASTERTIDE: RENAISSANCE EASTER IN SPAIN AND PORTUGAL Directed by Owen Rees (The Queen’s College Oxford, Contrapunctus) Experience the feast of the Resurrection through the lens of soaring polyphonic motets by the great Spanish and Portuguese composers Francisco Guerrero, Duarte Lobo, and Tomás Luis de Victoria. Dr. Owen Rees is both a performer and
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