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  • Fall of Constantinople Reviewed in Gramophone

    Fall of Constantinople Reviewed in Gramophone

    The CD of Cappella Romana’s most popular and critically acclaimed program, The Fall of Constantinople, has received a review in the April 2009 edition of Gramophone magazine. [Link to Cappella Romana’s CD Store] The review hasn’t yet appeared in the Gramophone online reviews, but do find it in print at your local music or magazine…

  • Review of the Concord Ensemble

    The Concord Ensemble’s February 28 concert has been reviewed on Portland’s Classical Music Blog, Northwest Reverb. Click here to join the grass-roots campaign to support Cappella Romana’s guest presentations (the gift amount doesn’t matter; like Obama’s campaign, we are looking for high participation with any size gift!)

  • Events at City University London

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEContact: Louise Gordon, Concerts Manager, +44 (0) 20 7040 8271, louise.gordon.1@city.ac.uk City University Brings ‘Voices of Byzantium’ to London ‘robust and intriguing music’—The Washington Post, 2 DEC. 06‘sung with such strength and commitment’ —Los Angeles Times, 12 DEC. 06 London. [12 February 2009] — In March 2009, the Department of Music at City…

  • Program for the Concord Ensemble

    Music for Holy Week from the New World I.Vexilla RegisGaspar Fernandes after Rodrigo de Ceballos(Portugal, ca.1565-ca. 1629) and (Spain, c.1525-1581) respectively Memento Mei DeusHernando Franco(Guatemala and Mexico, 1532-1585)Peccantem me quotidie II. Lamentatio Hieremiae ProphetaeFrancisco Lopéz y Capillas(b. Mexico City, c. 1605-8; d. 1674) III.MissaAnonymous(Brazil, 16th c.) Kyrie Sanctus (Benedictus from T.L. de Victoria’s Missa Quarti…

  • Kontakion on the Nativity reviewed by a POP MUSIC CRITIC!

    Kontakion on the Nativity reviewed by a POP MUSIC CRITIC!

    Check this out: http://localcut.wweek.com/2009/01/13/furniture-music-2-cappella-romana/ Furniture Music #2: Cappella Romana January 13th, 2009 [6:11PM] Posted by: Robert Ham A cappella music is probably as safe a place as any for me to start my year of classical immersion. We’ve all heard music like this—a precise, polyharmonic choir singing songs of devotion to God—in some form before.…

  • Review of Toensing Kontakion in the Seattle PI

    ‘Kontakion’ reflects the old, new Full text of the article … The first half of the program was devoted to carols and hymns of all sizes and attitudes. Most were written in the past century, with texts in English and Greek. Although they may be familiar in Orthodox circles, they are not so known outside…

  • Toensing Kontakion preview in the Seattle PI

    Full text of the article Toensing’s ‘Kontakion’ gets local debut By R.M. CAMPBELLP-I MUSIC CRITIC From its first days in the early 1990s, Cappella Romana has cut a long, deep swath through music: from the Byzantine empire that ended in 1453 and its Slavic descendants to the modern world. There are other vocal groups in…

  • Receive “Byzantium 300-1453” FREE when you buy 2 or more CDs

    Receive “Byzantium 300-1453” FREE when you buy 2 or more CDs

    Your FREE gift with 2 or more With your order of 2 or more CDs, we will send you a FREE GIFT: a copy of our latest title, “Byzantium: 330-1453,” a compilation of Cappella’s “Greatest Hits” of Byzantine music. CDs by Cappella Romana make great gifts. Choose from among our growing discography, from our latest…

  • New CD release from the Royal Academy in London

    New CD release from the Royal Academy in London

    Our Third CD release since July, a “Greatest Hits” compilation Byzantium: 330-1453Cappella Romana announces the release of its 11th recording, the official companion CD commissioned for the exhibition, BYZANTIUM: 330-1453, at London’s Royal Academy of Arts (25 October ’08 to 22 March ’08. www.royalacademy.org.uk). Order the disc here. Receive this disc as a free gift…

  • Singing Divine Liturgy at St. George’s Antiochian Orthodox Church, Portland (A report)

    Singing Divine Liturgy at St. George’s Antiochian Orthodox Church, Portland (A report)

    Cappella Romana members John S. Boyer, David Krueger, Les Green, Mark Powell, John Michael Boyer, LeaAnne DenBeste, Catherine van der Salm, Christina Abdul-Karim, and Jo Routh sang the service of the Divine Liturgy at St. George’s Antiochian Orthodox Church, Portland, Oregon, on October 5, 2008. Byzantine chant in English formed the basis for the service…

  • Cappella Romana to sing Divine Liturgy at St. George’s Orthodox Church, Portland

    Cappella Romana to sing Divine Liturgy at St. George’s Orthodox Church, Portland

    Cappella Romana, Portland’s professional vocal ensemble of international acclaim specializing in music of the Orthodox Church, will sing the Divine Liturgy at St. George’s Antiochian Orthodox Church in Portland, Oregon, this Sunday, October 5, at 10:00am. The ensemble will be led by John Michael Boyer, Protopsaltis (Chief Cantor) of the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of San…

  • Cappella Romana with Neal Stephenson at the Bagdad in Portland

    Cappella Romana with Neal Stephenson at the Bagdad in Portland

    Er, make that Neal “Stepheson.” At the Powell’s Books reading in Portland, Tuesday, September 16, at the Bagdad Theater.Cappella Romana singers Mark Powell, Adam Steele, (Neal Stephenson), Paige Baker, David Krueger.