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Information and tickets for our 20th-Anniversary Celebration Concert
Be Radiant, O Peoples!
See here excerpts of the All-Night Vigil performed by Cappella Romana in January 2012:
For the first time in its twenty-year history, Cappella Romana performed in its entirety the monumental All-Night Vigil (the so-called “Vespers”) by Sergei Rachmaninoff. Inspired by a contemporary movement to recover the Russia’s ancient spiritual and musical culture, Rachmaninoff surpassed his predecessors Kastalsky and Smolensky with the brilliance of his settings of Znamenny and Kievan chants. Scored for large chorus and soloists, his Vigil is today widely regarded as the outstanding masterpiece of the Russian choral tradition. Cappella Romana is a 2012 Guest Choral Artist at St. James Cathedral.
 NEW RELEASE: Cappella Romana performs exquisite Byzantine musical treasures--from the cathedrals and monasteries of the Eastern Roman Empire--preserved from destruction in the Egyptian desert at the Greek Orthodox Monastery of St. Catherine at Mt. Sinai. Features music for the medieval celebration of Vespers in honor of St. Catherine, and Byzantium's only liturgical drama, the Service of the Three Youths in the Fiery Furnace. Order here.
November appearances:
From Jerusalem to Constantinople: Byzantine Music for St. Catherine and Epiphany
11 Nov: Yale University Institute of Sacred Music, New Haven
12 Nov: Brown University, Providence
Mt. Sinai: Frontier of Byzantium Music for St. Catherine and the Play of the Three Children in the Furnace
17 Nov: United Methodist Church, Tillamook, Oregon
18 Nov: Music at St. Mark's, Medford, Oregon
19 Nov: St. Mary's Cathedral, Portland
20 Nov: St. Demetrios Church, Seattle
Click on the above links for tickets and more information.
Its performances “like jeweled light flooding the space” (Los Angeles Times), Cappella Romana is a vocal chamber ensemble dedicated to combining passion with scholarship in its exploration of the musical traditions of the Christian East and West, with emphasis on early and contemporary music. Founded in 1991, Cappella Romana’s name refers to the medieval Greek concept of the Roman oikoumene (inhabited world), which embraced Rome and Western Europe, as well as the Byzantine Empire of Constantinople ("New Rome") and its Slavic commonwealth. Each program in some way reflects the musical, cultural and spiritual heritage of this ecumenical vision.
Join the audience and celebrate our 20th Anniversary.
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Highlighting the season, Cappella Romana will return in March 2012 to The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York to perform the program “Desert and City: Medieval Byzantine Music of the Holy Land.” This event is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Byzantium and Islam: Age of Transition (7th-9th Century). The exhibition is made possible by the Stavros S. Niarchos Foundation and The Hagop Kevorkian Fund.
Click here for video and photos of Cappella Romana's recent tour performance at Stanford Memorial Church.
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