PORTLAND'S CAPPELLA ROMANA SINGS SACRED CHORUSES FROM TWO CENTURIES.(Entertainment)(Review)

From: Seattle Post-Intelligencer | Date: September 22, 1998| Author: | Copyright information

Founded seven years ago, Cappella Romana immediately established itself as a small ensemble dedicated to the unusual in unaccompanied vocal music.

The group, led by the young scholar Alexander Lingas, explored little-known regions of the Christian East and West, in its earliest and latest expressions of faith, with a particular emphasis on the Byzantine world of Constantinople and the Slavic countries it influenced.

Sunday night, the Portland-based organization opened its new season at Greek Orthodox Church of the Assumption on Capitol Hill with an intriguing mix of ...

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