Subj: New CD by Cappella Romana
Date: 3/22/2004 5:14:50 AM Eastern Standard Time
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Mark Powell, 503.236.8202
info@cappellaromana.org
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York releases
"Music of Byzantium" by Cappella Romana
20 March 2004. Portland, Ore., Seattle, Wash. â Cappella Romana has released
a new recording, "Music of Byzantium," upon its return from The Byzantine
Festival in London, England, where the ensemble performed in St. Paul's Cathedral
(photo) to an audience of over 1,500, including His Royal Highness The Duke of
Kent, Sir John Tavener, and His Excellency the Ambassador of Greece to Great
Britain.
This disc is released in conjunction with the international loan exhibit
"Byzantium: Faith and Power 1261-1557" at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New
York, available at the museum and through Cappella Romana. Wholesale discounts
available.
The compilation CD features works drawn from recent live concerts and
recording sessions, including music for the feasts of January 1st (St. Basil) and
January 6th (Epiphany) and Imperial Acclamations for Constantine XI Palaiologos
(1449-1453), the last Byzantine Emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire.
Two laments for the fall of the Constantinople may be heard on the recording,
one by Manuel Chrysaphes, last cantor of the Great Church of Hagia Sophia,
and the infamous Lamentatio Sanctae Matris Ecclesiae Constantinopolitanae by
Franco-Flemish composer Guillaume DuFay.
On Sunday, April 18, 2004, at 3:00pm at the Metropolitan Museum, Cappella
Romana will perform the program "Music for the Fall of Constantinople," featuring
music from around 1453, the year of the City's conquest by the Ottoman Turks.
The ensemble will be conducted by founder and artistic director Alexander
Lingas. Performances at Yale and Princeton Universities will take place during
the same weekend.
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. Performing music
of the Three Romes, its name is derived from the medieval concept of the Roman
oikoumene (inhabited world), which included not only "Old" Rome and Western
Europe but also "New Rome" (Constantinople) and "Third Rome" (Moscow) and its
commonwealth of Slavic countries.
Cappella Romana made its London debut in March 2004 at the Byzantine Festival
in London, with concerts at Queen Elizabeth Hall, St. Paul's Cathedral, and
the Greek Cathedral of London. In April the ensemble makes its New York debut
at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York during the museum's major
international loan exhibit âByzantium: Faith and Power 1261-1557â as the final event
of an international symposium. Two other concerts are scheduled at Yale and
Princeton Universities.
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