ALEXANDER LINGAS I Founder & Artistic Director

2014-2015 Concert SeriesSeattle • 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

Saturdays & Sundays in PortlandAlexander Lingas

Cappella Romana is the Northwest’s leading professional chamber choir with a series of concerts in both Seattle and Portland.

Expand your musical horizons into unknown regions of East and West with programs of early and contemporary music that can’t be heard anywhere else.

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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.

This season:Seattle on FridaysPortland on Saturdays & Sunday matinées

Free pre-concert talks one hour before each performance.

You’ll want to experience every one: Turn the page to begin the journey.

Sacred Songs of Serbia

Musicologist and conductor Bogdan Djaković makes his US début with Cappella Romana leading a program of beautiful works from the Serbian Orthodox

tradition. Dr. Djaković makes his home in Serbia’s historically turbulent northern region, which for generations has been subject to competing cultural influences. He has devoted his career to exploring the meeting of East and West in Serbian

choral music. His program presents traditional Eastern Orthodox sources filtered through Western European musical colors and techniques, creating works of

resplendent beauty.

Fri 24-Oct-2014 8:00 pm SEATTLE St. Joseph’s Parish

Sat 25-Oct-2014 8:00 pm PORTLAND St. Mary’s Cathedral

On the programn Kornelije Stanković (1831-1865): Dogmatikon for the Mother of Godn Josif Marinković (1851-1931): “O heavenly King,” “Our Father”n Stevan Stojanović Mokranjac (1856-1914): Cherubic Hymn,

Opelo/Requiem (excerpts)

And more...

The Fall of Constantinople

The Utrecht Early Music Festival, the most important event of its kind in the

world, presents Cappella Romana on September 7, 2014 with the program “The Fall of Constantinople.” Join the ensemble on Labor Day weekend just

before its European tour as it explores the musical legacy of the ancient civilization

of Byzantium—with majestic ceremonies for the cathedral of Hagia Sophia,

triumphant assertions of superiority by Westerners, and fervent prayers for the

healing of political and religious divisions.

n Hierarchical Entrance Rite for a Byzantine Divine Liturgy at Hagia Sophia,

Constantinople, c. 1453. n Guillaume DuFay (1397–1474): Ecclesiæ militantis, Apostolo glorioso,

Vasilissa ergo gaude, Lamentatio Sanctae Matris Ecclesiæ Constantinopolitanæ

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

Sat 30-Aug-2014 8:00 pm PORTLAND St. Mary’s Cathedral

“It was not hard to

imagine that the singers’

voices were actually

reverberating back and forth through

Hagia Sophia’s

enormous sanctuary”

– San FranciSco

claSSical Voice

“The real wonder lay in discovering the

sheer breadth of repertoire and subtle virtuosity of [Djaković’s] choir.”– The TimeS, london

On the program

Good Friday in Medieval Jerusalem

Cappella Romana releases its 21st recording with these performances of music for Good Friday in Medieval Jerusalem. Hear Medieval Byzantine chant,

the fraternal repertoire to Latin chant in the West, composed for 8th- and 9th-century celebrations of Holy Week in Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre. Hymns by

Jerusalem’s great church fathers—Patriarch Sophronios, Kosmas the Melodist, and

Saint John Damascene—include the famous Orthodox hymn “Semeron krematai”

(“Today He who is hung upon the tree”) sung to its original medieval melody.

Fri 6-Feb-2015 8:00 pm SEATTLE St. Joseph’s Parish

Sat 7-Feb-2015 8:00 pm PORTLAND Trinity Episcopal Cathedral

Sun 8-Feb-2015 2:00 pm PORTLAND St. Mary’s Cathedral

n Sophronios of Jerusalem: Antiphons of Holy Friday (selections)n Kosmas the Melodist: Hymns of the Triodionn Romanos the Melodist: Kontakion of Holy Fridayn Anonymous: Byzantine chant from MS EBE 2401n Byzantios and Stoudites: Idiomela

“A real thrill in discovering

music that hasn’t been heard for 500 years…”

– Gramophone

On the program

Echoes of the Renaissance

Dr. Tikey Zes (b. 1927) is the most prolific composer of Greek Orthodox liturgical music in America. Long a proponent of Zes’s music, Cappella

Romana will perform excerpts of a setting of his Divine Liturgy which Cappella

Romana released on CD last season. Preceding the Zes are selections of the Missa

MiMi by Johannes Ockeghem, who with other masters of the Renaissance inspired

Zes’s approach to modal harmony and counterpoint. Zes recorded the Ockeghem

Missa MiMi on LP with his Berkeley Chamber Singers in the 1960s, at the dawn of the modern Early Music movement.

Fri 9-Jan-2015 8:00 pm SEATTLE St. Joseph’s Parish

Sat 10-Jan-2015 8:00 pm PORTLAND Trinity Episcopal Cathedral

Sun 11-Jan-2015 2:00 pm PORTLAND St. Mary’s Cathedral

n Johannes Ockeghem: Missa MiMi (excerpts)n Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: Motetsn Tikey Zes: The Divine Liturgy (1991/96, selections)

On the program

“There is no doubt that Zes’s music is significant, historical, and important”

– audiophile audiTion

Mon 23-Feb-2015 7:30 pm PORTLAND Kaul Auditorium, Reed College

The Complete Oratorio (3 hrs in length): Highlights for Christmas (2 hrs in length):

Fri 12-Dec-2014 7:30 pm Mon 15-Dec-2014 7:30 pm

Sat 13-Dec-2014 7:30 pm

Sun 14-Dec-2014 4:00 pm First Baptist Church, Downtown Portland

İstanbul - ConstantinopleJordi Savall with Hespèrion XXI and guests

Co-presented by Cappella Romana, Friends of Chamber

Music, and Portland Baroque Orchestra

Jordi Savall is an exceptional figure in today’s music 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,

and Sephardic musicians.

Handel’s Messiah

Portland Baroque Orchestra and Cappella Romana

PBO and Cappella Romana join forces again for their annual holiday performances

of Handel’s masterpiece oratorio, directed by renowned British conductor and

scholar John Butt.

From Darkness to Light

Alfred Schnittke’s Verses of Repentance (Stikhi Pokayanniye) is a musical tour-de- 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.

Fri 15-May-2015 8:00 pm SEATTLE Trinity Parish

Sat 16-May-2015 8:00 pm PORTLAND St. Mary’s Cathedral

Sun 17-May-2015 2:00 pm PORTLAND Trinity Episcopal Cathedral

n Alfred Schnittke: Twelve Verses of Repentance a.k.a Psalms of Repentance (US Première)

n Galina Grigorjeva: Diptychn Ivan Moody: Anástasis (“Resurrection”)

NOTE: Portland’s evening performance is at St. Mary’s Cathedral, with the matinée at Trinity Cathedral (Seattle’s performance is at Trinity Parish).

On the program

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Bonus Concerts in Portland

St. Joseph’s Parish (SJP)Capitol Hill: 732 18th Ave E, at Aloha on Capitol Hill. Cappella Romana’s principal venue in Seattle is in the center of the city; neighborhood street parking is available, and in the school and parish lot.

Trinity Parish (TP)First Hill: 609 8th Ave at James. Parking in Skyline on First Hill at 8th and Columbia, and street parking. May 15 concert only.

St. Mary’s Cathedral (SMC)NW Portland: NW 18th & Couch, just one block north of Burnside. Two blocks from Providence Field MAX Station. Parking lot at 18th and NW Davis; street parking available around the church.

Trinity Episcopal Cathedral (TC)NW Portland: NW 19th & Everett. Four blocks from Providence Field MAX Station. Small parking lot opposite church on 19th; street parking.

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Cover photo: Agia Sophia: Panagia Protectress (2006), by Martha Irene Wallulis. Oil on prepared wood, 18 x 23 3/4 in. Photography by Jacob Gorny. Used by permission.

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