Tag: Heaven and Earth

  • Cappella Romana returns to Boston with The Byzantine Choral Inheritance

    Cappella Romana returns to Boston with The Byzantine Choral Inheritance

    Cappella Romana Returns to Boston WithThe byzantine Choral Inheritance Boston Thursday 16 February 2023, 7:30 P.M.First church, Cambridge Greek Orthodox Music from the old and new worlds From Constantinople to California to Cambridge! Renowned vocal ensemble Cappella Romana will perform The Byzantine Choral Inheritance at First Church in Cambridge, February 16, 7:30pm. Tickets start at…

  • Heaven and Earth: A Song of Creation – This Weekend!

    Heaven and Earth: A Song of Creation – This Weekend!

    This weekend, Cappella Romana performs Heaven and Earth: A Song of Creation and Ikon of Light in Seattle and Portland AND launches the world premiere recording! We’ve got all the materials here to get you prepared for this monumental weekend! Heaven and Earth Seattle Friday 14 October 2022, 7:30 P.M.St. James Cathedral Portland Saturday 15…

  • Cappella Records Announces “Heaven and Earth” Release on October 14, 2022

    Cappella Records Announces “Heaven and Earth” Release on October 14, 2022

    Cappella Records is pleased to announce the October 14, 2022, two-disc release of Heaven and Earth, with Cappella Romana’s Associate Music Director John Michael Boyer leading the ensemble along with 45th Parallel Universe in John Tavener’s masterpiece for choir and string trio, Ikon of Light. The release also features the world premiere of Heaven and Earth: A Song of Creation, a unique collaborative setting…

  • Oregon Arts Watch Autumn Preview

    Oregon Arts Watch Autumn Preview

    Oregon Arts Watch has published its Autumn 2022 Choral Preview, and we are thrilled to see our two upcoming performances included! “Cappella Romana‘s season premiere concert stands alone. The title piece, Heaven and Earth, was written by six composers, CR Associate Conductor John Michael Boyer among them – a unique collaborative effort premiered by Cappella Romana in…

  • Oregon Arts Watch Review for “A Song of Creation”

    Oregon Arts Watch Review for “A Song of Creation”

    Cappella Romana’s performance…was an electrifying, bristlingly intense superabundance of laser-beam monody and…florid counterpoint in the Eastern Orthodox style. … Here, the modern music was a vivid variety of sacred choral music by contemporary composers Matthew Arndt, John Michael Boyer, Alexander Khalil, Kurt Sander, Richard Toensing, and Tikey Zes. The six composers, according to the program,…

  • Heaven and Earth: A Song of Creation – World Premiere Performances

    Heaven and Earth: A Song of Creation – World Premiere Performances

    Photos from our World Premiere Weekend for “Heaven and Earth: A Song of Creation” in Seattle and Portland!

  • KING FM Northwest Focus features Heaven and Earth: The Song of Creation

    KING FM Northwest Focus features Heaven and Earth: The Song of Creation

    In the lead up to our Heaven and Earth: A Song of Creation series, Seattle’s KING FM will be previewing the performance on the Northwest Focus program on Wednesday and Thursday of this week (10/10-11/2018). Date Time Music Wednesday, October 10 9:30pm Tikey Zes: Cherubic Hymn (from The Divine Liturgy)   Thursday, October 11 8:29pm…

  • Notes on Heaven and Earth: A Song of Creation

    Notes on Heaven and Earth: A Song of Creation

    Heaven and Earth: A Song of Creation Dedicated to Richard Toensing (+2014) and Archimandrite Ephrem Lash (+2016) of blessed memory Program Notes by Richard Barrett, Artistic Director, The Saint John of Damascus Society HEAVEN AND EARTH TICKETS 10/12 SEATTLE TICKETS 10/13 PORTLAND TICKETS 10/14 PORTLAND TICKETS The Saint John of Damascus Society is a sacred arts…

  • The Psalm 103 Project

    The Psalm 103 Project

    Heaven and Earth: A Song of Creation 12-14 Oct, 2018 TICKETS & INFO Cappella Romana’s Heaven and Earth: A Song of Creation Series (October 12-14, 2018) is a collaboration with the Saint John of Damascus Society. A musical meditation on Psalm 103 (“Bless the Lord, O my soul”), the Orthodox Vesperal Psalm, the program premieres…