Tag: From Darkness to Light

  • Oregon ArtsWatch Reviews From Darkness to Light

    Oregon ArtsWatch Reviews From Darkness to Light

    Oregon ArtsWatch critic Jeff Winslow weighed in on Cappella Romana’s recent performance of Schnittke’s Verses of Repentance during our From Darkness to Light concert: “Only a tin-eared deity could fail to be moved by such offerings. … In the final movement, over a constant drone from the low basses, the other voices, singing wordlessly with…

  • Arstlandia Interviews Ivan Moody Before From Darkness To Light

    Arstlandia Interviews Ivan Moody Before From Darkness To Light

    Arstlandia hosts a Q&A with From Darkness To Light guest conductor Ivan Moody and includes this preview of the performance: This coming weekend, May 16 and 17, classical choir Cappella Romana will bring star composer and conductor Ivan Moody to Portland to conduct From Darkness to Light, an intense program featuring the rarely-performed Choir Concerto…

  • Ivan Moody: From Darkness to Light

    Ivan Moody: From Darkness to Light

    The From Darkness to Light programme is a journey in more than one sense. Firstly, it takes us from spiritual darkness (the condition which is cured, according to Orthodox Christian tradition, by metanoia, a change of heart) to light, the radiance of the Resurrection of Christ, by which mankind is made new. Secondly, it takes…

  • Ivan Moody Discusses From Darkness To Light

    Ivan Moody Discusses From Darkness To Light

    From Darkness to Light From Darkness to Light will feature the Alfred Schnittke’s Verses of Repentance, Rachmaninoff’s Concerto for Choir, Galina Grigorjeva’s Diptych and Ivan Moody’s own Anastasis on Eastertide! [one_half] Seattle TICKETS Friday, 15 May 2015, 8:00pm Trinity Episcopal Church [/one_half][one_half_last] Portland TICKETS Saturday, 16 May 2015, 8:00pm St. Mary’s Cathedral TICKETS Sunday, 17…

  • Ivan Moody To Give Pre-Concert Lecture

    Ivan Moody To Give Pre-Concert Lecture

    Pre-Concert Talks: Meet Ivan Moody One hour prior to each concert, guest director Ivan Moody will present a brief talk on the program, and will be available to sign his recent book and CDs (a selection will be available for purchase). Rev. Dr. Ivan Moody is one of the world’s leading scholars on Russian composer…

  • Cappella Romana To Perform Rachmaninoff’s Concerto for Choir!

    Cappella Romana To Perform Rachmaninoff’s Concerto for Choir!

    Guest Director Ivan Moody adds Rachmaninoff’s Concerto for Choir to the program From Darkness to Light! “Rachmaninoff’s wonderful choir concerto is the perfect work to anchor this program. His music was both a culmination of a great tradition and a starting point for so much of what followed in Russia. In many ways it is,…