ALEXANDER LINGAS I Founder & Artistic Director 2014-2015 Concert Series Seattle • Portland “Cappella Romana sings this music as if already in the heavenly realms, and can transport the listener there, as well.” – FANFARE Cappella Romana Fridays in Seattle Cappella Romana is the Northwest’s leading This season: professional chamber choir with a series of concerts Seattle on Fridays in both Seattle and Portland. Portland on Saturdays & Sunday matinées Expand your musical horizons into unknown regions of Free pre-concert talks one hour before each performance. East and West with programs of early and contemporary You’ll want to experience every one: Turn the page to music that can’t be heard anywhere else. begin the journey. Save up to 25% off at-the-door single tickets by choosing a discount subscription package today. Alexander Lingas Saturdays & Sundays in Portland Alexander Lingas, Cappella Romana’s founder and artistic director, is one of the world’s leading scholar-performers of music of the Orthodox traditions. Dr. Lingas is Senior Lecturer in Music at City University London and a fellow of the University of Oxford’s European Humanities Research Centre. “It was not hard to imagine that the singers’ voices were actually reverberating back and forth through Hagia Sophia’s enormous sanctuary” “The real wonder lay in discovering the – SAN FRANCISCO sheer breadth of repertoire and subtle CLASSICAL VOICE virtuosity of [Djaković’s] choir.” – THE TIMES, LONDON The Fall of Sacred Songs Constantinople of Serbia usicologist and conductor Bogdan Djaković makes his US début with Cappella he Utrecht Early Music Festival, the most important event of its kind in the M Romana leading a program of beautiful works from the Serbian Orthodox Tworld, presents Cappella Romana on September 7, 2014 with the program tradition. Dr. Djaković makes his home in Serbia’s historically turbulent northern “The Fall of Constantinople.” Join the ensemble on Labor Day weekend just region, which for generations has been subject to competing cultural influences. before its European tour as it explores the musical legacy of the ancient civilization He has devoted his career to exploring the meeting of East and West in Serbian of Byzantium—with majestic ceremonies for the cathedral of Hagia Sophia, choral music. His program presents traditional Eastern Orthodox sources filtered triumphant assertions of superiority by Westerners, and fervent prayers for the through Western European musical colors and techniques, creating works of healing of political and religious divisions. resplendent beauty. On the program On the program n Hierarchical Entrance Rite for a Byzantine Divine Liturgy at Hagia Sophia, n Kornelije Stanković (1831-1865): Dogmatikon for the Mother of God Constantinople, c. 1453. n Josif Marinković (1851-1931): “O heavenly King,” “Our Father” n Guillaume DuFay (1397–1474): Ecclesiæ militantis, Apostolo glorioso, n Stevan Stojanović Mokranjac (1856-1914): Cherubic Hymn, Vasilissa ergo gaude, Lamentatio Sanctae Matris Ecclesiæ Opelo/Requiem (excerpts) Constantinopolitanæ And more... n Manuel Chrysaphes (fl. 1440–1463): Lament for the Fall of Constantinople And more... Fri 29-Aug-2014 8:00 pm SEATTLE St. Joseph’s Parish Fri 24-Oct-2014 8:00 pm SEATTLE St. Joseph’s Parish Sat 30-Aug-2014 8:00 pm PORTLAND St. Mary’s Cathedral Sat 25-Oct-2014 8:00 pm PORTLAND St. Mary’s Cathedral “There is no doubt that Zes’s music is significant, historical, and important” – aUDIOPHILE AUDITION “A real thrill in discovering music that hasn’t been heard for 500 years…” – GRAMOPHONE Echoes of Good Friday in the Renaissance Medieval Jerusalem r. Tikey Zes (b. 1927) is the most prolific composer of Greek Orthodox D liturgical music in America. Long a proponent of Zes’s music, Cappella appella Romana releases its 21st recording with these performances of music Romana will perform excerpts of a setting of his Divine Liturgy which Cappella C for Good Friday in Medieval Jerusalem. Hear Medieval Byzantine chant, Romana released on CD last season. Preceding the Zes are selections of the Missa the fraternal repertoire to Latin chant in the West, composed for 8th- and 9th-century MiMi by Johannes Ockeghem, who with other masters of the Renaissance inspired celebrations of Holy Week in Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre. Hymns by Zes’s approach to modal harmony and counterpoint. Zes recorded the Ockeghem Jerusalem’s great church fathers—Patriarch Sophronios, Kosmas the Melodist, and Missa MiMi on LP with his Berkeley Chamber Singers in the 1960s, at the dawn of Saint John Damascene—include the famous Orthodox hymn “Semeron krematai” the modern Early Music movement. (“Today He who is hung upon the tree”) sung to its original medieval melody. On the program On the program n Johannes Ockeghem: Missa MiMi (excerpts) n Sophronios of Jerusalem: Antiphons of Holy Friday (selections) n Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: Motets n Kosmas the Melodist: Hymns of the Triodion n Tikey Zes: The Divine Liturgy (1991/96, selections) n Romanos the Melodist: Kontakion of Holy Friday n Anonymous: Byzantine chant from MS EBE 2401 n Byzantios and Stoudites: Idiomela Fri 9-Jan-2015 8:00 pm SEATTLE St. Joseph’s Parish Fri 6-Feb-2015 8:00 pm SEATTLE St. Joseph’s Parish Sat 10-Jan-2015 8:00 pm PORTLAND Trinity Episcopal Cathedral Sat 7-Feb-2015 8:00 pm PORTLAND Trinity Episcopal Cathedral Sun 11-Jan-2015 2:00 pm PORTLAND St. Mary’s Cathedral Sun 8-Feb-2015 2:00 pm PORTLAND St. Mary’s Cathedral Bonus Concerts in Portland “Cappella Romana left the audience suspended in a zone of İstanbul - Constantinople otherworldly beauty. … Jordi Savall with Hespèrion XXI Can this group really and guests still be such a well-kept Co-presented by Cappella Romana, Friends of Chamber secret in Seattle?” Music, and Portland Baroque Orchestra – cROSSCUT ordi Savall is an exceptional figure in today’s Jmusic world. One of the most multifariously gifted musicians of his generation and a revered viola da gamba player, he is one of the principal architects of the current revaluation of historical music. This program explores the continuation of music of the Byzantines in the Ottoman court by Armenian, Greek, Add these 2 and Sephardic musicians. concerts to your subscription. From Darkness Mon 23-Feb-2015 7:30 pm PORTLAND Kaul Auditorium, Reed College to Light lfred Schnittke’s Verses of Repentance (Stikhi Pokayanniye) is a musical tour-de- A force, surpassing in virtuosity Schnittke’s more widely known Concerto for Choir. Rich harmonies and exuberant melodies deliver these poignant words with tender to fervent emotion, as the music gives way to an ineffable, final movement sung without words. Cappella Romana favorite Ivan Moody will conduct, completing this intense program with Diptych by Galina Grigorjeva and his own work Anástasis on Eastertide texts in Greek and English. Handel’s On the program Messiah n Alfred Schnittke: Twelve Verses of Repentance a.k.a Psalms of Repentance (US Première) Portland Baroque Orchestra and Cappella Romana n Galina Grigorjeva: Diptych BO and Cappella Romana join forces again for their annual holiday performances n Ivan Moody: Anástasis (“Resurrection”) P of Handel’s masterpiece oratorio, directed by renowned British conductor and NOTE: Portland’s evening performance is at St. Mary’s Cathedral, with the scholar John Butt. matinée at Trinity Cathedral (Seattle’s performance is at Trinity Parish). The Complete Oratorio (3 hrs in length): Highlights for Christmas (2 hrs in length): Fri 15-May-2015 8:00 pm SEATTLE Trinity Parish Fri 12-Dec-2014 7:30 pm Mon 15-Dec-2014 7:30 pm Sat 16-May-2015 8:00 pm PORTLAND St. Mary’s Cathedral Sat 13-Dec-2014 7:30 pm Sun 17-May-2015 2:00 pm PORTLAND Trinity Episcopal Cathedral Sun 14-Dec-2014 4:00 pm First Baptist Church, Downtown Portland 2014-2015 Concert Series Subscribe today and receive these benefits: n Up to 25% off single ticket prices SEATING CHART: COMPLETE SERIES — Save the most when you buy all five! n First choice of the best seats—available now, before tickets go on STAGE / FRONT OF ALTAR 1 CHOOSE YOUR CONCERTS SEATTLE PORTLAND sale to the public n The Fall of Constantinople Fri 29 Aug, 8pm SJP Sat 30 Aug, 8pm SMC n 20% off ALL Cappella Romana CDs! 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