Tag: Maximilian Steinberg

  • Cappella Romana Passion Week Performance a “World-Class Arts Event”

    Cappella Romana Passion Week Performance a “World-Class Arts Event”

    Portland Monthly Magazine has a Spring “Guide to the Season’s World-Class Arts Events” and tabs our April 11th Passion Week concert at St. Mary’s Cathedral. “In April, vocal ensemble Cappella Romana performs the world premiere of Maximilian Steinberg’s Passion Week, the last major sacred work composed in Russia before Stalin cracked down on religious art.…

  • Nerd-Out with Cappella Romana’s Passion Week Concert!

    Nerd-Out with Cappella Romana’s Passion Week Concert!

    Received via email (and shared with permission): “I’ve had a chance to check out the Cappella Romana website. I studied history focusing on ancient and Jewish history (with a little Medieval European history) in college, so I am completely “nerding-out” over the idea that a choir like this exists! I am definitely planning on attending…

  • Passion Week composer Maximilian Steinberg

    Passion Week composer Maximilian Steinberg

    A little about the April 2014 Passion Week composer Maximilian Steinberg Russian composer and teacher, Maximilian Steinberg from the St Petersburg University conservatory in 1908 where his teachers had been Rimsky-Korsakov (composition), Lyadov (harmony) and Glazunov (orchestration). In 1908 he began his teaching career at the conservatory, where he was a teacher of noted students…

  • Coming April 2014 — Passion Week

    Coming April 2014 — Passion Week

    Passion Week by Maximilian Steinberg Sacred Music in Post-Revolutionary Russia This April, for the first time in recorded history, Cappella Romana presents the last major sacred work composed in Russia before Stalin’s 1932 crackdown: Passion Week by Maximilian Steinberg. You’ll gain insights into Steinberg’s complicated personal history: he was born into a Jewish family in…