Cappella Romana Awarded New Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts
National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Jane Chu has approved more than $80 million in grants as part of the NEA’s second major funding announcement for fiscal year 2018. Included in this announcement is an ArtWorks grant of $10,000 to Cappella Romana to launch a new three-concert series in San Francisco. The ArtWorks category is the…
Director Update – Associate Music Director John Michael Boyer to conduct Rautavaara All-Night Vigil in Portland and Seattle
John Michael Boyer will conduct Cappella Romana in this week’s performances of the All-Night Vigil by Einojuhani Rautavaara, replacing Timo Nuoranne. Nuoranne’s visa has been held up at the US Consulate in Frankfurt, Germany, in part due to a State Department delay in the days leading to the inauguration. Film: John Michael Boyer in rehearsal…
Einojuhani Rautavaara 1928-2016. Memory eternal
In his memory, Cappella Romana will perform his All-Night Vigil in January 2017, directed by Finnish conductor Timo Nuoranne who has championed the music of Rautavaara for his entire career. Details on The Washington Post Below is a recording of Timo Nuoranne conducting the All-Night Vigil with the Finnish Radio Chamber Choir:
Benjamin Tissell Reviews Rachmaninoff All-Night Vigil
A wonderful heartfelt review of our Rachmaninoff All-Night Vigil concert from artist Benjamin Tissell: “…it was with great relish that I spent last Saturday night trying to finagle my way into a choir concert for the student price. The choir was Cappella Romana, one of the best around. The piece was Rachmaninoff’s “All Night Vigil”…
CityArts Reviews Seattle Rachmaninoff Concert
CityArts critic Philippa Kiraly reviews Cappella Romana’s Rachmaninoff All-Night Vigil performance in Seattle: “This wasn’t a requiem, but the beautiful All-Night Vigil of Sergei Rachmaninoff was highly appropriate to the day (9/11), the occasion and the cathedral, and perfectly suited to Cappella Romana. … The Vigil is replete with colors, rhythms, textures and emotion, creating…
Oregon Arts Watch Reviews Rachmaninoff’s All-Night Vigil
Oregon ArtsWatch critic Bob Hicks attended Sunday’s All-Night Vigil concert at St. Mary’s Cathedral and took a visit to an undiscovered country: “And that, it struck me, gets to the true meaning of “classic”: not a time period or a signifier of something ancient and therefore not quite relevant, but something that remains young and…
Artslandia Interviews Mark Bailey
Artslandia interviews our Rachmaninoff: All-Night Vigil guest-conductor Mark Bailey! Here’s an excerpt, but you can find the full interview on www.artslandia.com: “What makes this group, Cappella Romana, a good fit for this music? And more generally, what do you enjoy about working with them? Cappella Romana brings so much to this work, for one, the…
Cappella Romana on “Played in Oregon”
Tune in to AllClassical Portland this Sunday, August 30th at 1pm as Brandi Parisi plays excerpts from our 2012 Rachmaninoff All-Night Vigil concert on the “Played in Oregon” program in advance of our September 11-13th All-Night Vigil performances! www.allclassical.org Rachmaninoff All-Night Vigil: Cappella Romana’s 24th Annual Season opens with Sergei Rachmaninoff’s monumental All-Night Vigil (also…
Patrick Comerford Previews Cappella Romana’s All-Night Vigil Centennial Performance And More
After attending Dr. Alexander Lingas’ Kilkenny Arts Festival lecture “The Lost Music of Byzantium” last Saturday, blogger Patrick Comerford previews Cappella Romana’s upcoming Rachmaninoff All-Night Vigil concert series: “This year marks the centenary of the All-Night Vigil, the a cappella choral composition by Sergei Rachmaninoff, his Op. 37. … To mark this centenary, Cappella Romana…
Are You Ready To RACH?
https://youtu.be/W122kZepafk Cappella Romana’s 24th Annual Season opens with Sergei Rachmaninoff’s monumental All-Night Vigil (also known as the Vespers), in celebration of the 100th anniversary of its premiere in 1915. Impassioned and hauntingly beautiful, the All-Night Vigil is a pinnacle of the Russian choral repertoire. The performances will include psalms and hymns by Tchaikovsky and others…
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