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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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Cyber Week Sale Ends Tonight!
Our Cyber Monday, week-long Sale ends TONIGHT at Midnight! Get in on the savings while you still can! Purchase two or more CDs and get 50% off your entire order with promo code “2for1”! You can get a head start to your Christmas music listening by purchasing one of our Christmas CDs like Kontakion on
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Looking Back to January
As we get closer to our 2013 Rachmaninoff Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom concerts, we wanted to take a look back at our Rachmaninoff All Night Vigil performances from this January! Here’s a feature of our dress rehearsal on OPB: “With 26 voices including an augmented bass section to anchor Rachmaninoff’s dark, almost subterranean sound,
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Get A Look Inside Bing Concert Hall
February 1st, Cappella Romana will perform in Stanford University’s new Bing Concert Hall which opens in January! Cappella Romana will perform the “From Constantinople to California” program amid acoustics electronically enhanced to simulate the lush resonances of the ancient Hagia Sophia cathedral in Istanbul, Turkey in collaboration with faculty in Art & Art History and the Center
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Ivan Moody on the Rachmaninoff Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom
Following three sold-out performances last season of Rachmaninoff’s All-Night Vigil (“Vespers”), this year Cappella Romana presents Rachmaninoff’s earlier sacred masterpiece, the Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom (1910). Composer (and friend of Cappella Romana) Fr. Ivan Moody, published some wonderful program notes for the Corydon Singers recording of this work, and we’ll quote some of
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Cappella Romana Presents The Messiah with the Portland Baroque Orchestra
Cappella Romana Joins With the Portland Baroque Orchestra to present Handel’s Messiah Handel’s greatest oratorio, continuously performed in the world every year since its composition. An added Monday evening performance, lasting about two hours, features highlights from the complete oratorio. The Portland Baroque Orchestra with: Monica Huggett, directorCappella Romana, chorusKathryn Mueller, sopranoOwen Willetts, altoCharles Brady,
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Rachmaninoff: Divine Liturgy – This Weekend!
Following three sold-out performances last season of Rachmaninoff’s All-Night Vigil (“Vespers”), this weekend Cappella Romana presents Rachmaninoff’s Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom! Get your tickets today!
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Get a look at Bing Concert Hall
February 1st, Cappella Romana will perform in Stanford University’s all-new Bing Concert Hall (just opened this past weekend)! Cappella Romana will perform the “From Constantinople to California” program amid acoustics electronically enhanced to simulate the lush resonances of the ancient Hagia Sophia cathedral in Istanbul, Turkey in collaboration with faculty in Art & Art History and the
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Cappella Romana and CCRMA Time Travel to Hagia Sophia
Stanford Live Magazine has a fantastic article chronicling the process of re-creating the Hagia Sophia in our upcoming “From Constantinople to California” performance. Read the introduction by author Jason Victor Serinus here, and then find the full article at www.livelyarts.stanford.edu! Total Sacred Immersion: Cappella Romana and CCRMA Time Travel to Hagia Sophia The universe may
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Cappella Romana Holy Week in Jerusalem Program
Saturday, February 2nd, the day after our (already sold-out) Bing Concert Hall debut, Cappella Romana will perform music composed for 8th and 9th-century celebrations of Holy Week in Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulcher amid the natural acoustics of the Stanford University Memorial Church. Take a look at what Cappella Romana will be performing: The
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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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Looking Ahead – Renaissance Easter in Spain and Portugal
Coming next from Cappella Romana: Owen Rees Renaissance Easter In Spain and PortugalDirected by Owen Rees (The Queen’s College Oxford, Contrapuntus) 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, making his
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