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Cappella Romana: Bringing it all back home

By Brett Campbell
July 15, 2011
Featured, Music

Cappella Romana heads for Greece

Congrats to Cappella Romana, which just announced that it received an invitation and funding that will allow a 10-member ensemble to travel  to Greece in September for performances at the annual Sacred Music Festival of Patmos, Greece, and at Paros’s  6th-century Church of 100 Doors.

Inasmuch as the superb Portland-based chorus is the world’s leading performer of music of ancient Byzantium, it’s like a return to the mothership to export its program  “The Byzantine Tradition: From Constantinople to California.” Except, says CR’s Mark Powell, that that music, as well one of the group’s other specialties, the music of modern Greek-American composers, is almost unknown at their wellspring. So it should be a mutually enlightening sojourn.

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