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Dr. Alexander Lingas, Music Director

PASSION AND RESURRECTION by IVAN MOODY
Conducted by the composer - Oratorio for chorus, soloists, strings and bells

Cappella Romana gave the North American premiere of this work in 1996, and we are pleased to welcome again British composer Ivan Moody to conduct Passion and Resurrection, a moving oratorio for chorus, soloists and instrumental ensemble that weaves the Gospel narrative with radiant hymns from the Russian and Greek Orthodox services of Holy Week. On tour, Cappella Romana will open the Eclectic Orange Festival of the Philharmonic Society of Orange County and give a concert in St. Sophia's Greek Orthodox Cathedral concert series in Los Angeles.

NEW YEAR'S IN OLD AND NEW ROME
Alexander Lingas, director - Ioannis Arvanitis, guest artist - Old Roman and Byzantine Chant

Back by popular demand, virtuoso Byzantine chanter Ioannis Arvanitis from Athens, Greece joins the men of Cappella again for a stunning program of Old Roman and Byzantine chant for the feasts of the Nativity and Circumcision of Christ. Ioannis Arvanitis is a rising star in a new generation of scholar-performers of medieval chant, and has worked with such ensembles as Ensemble Organum with Marcel Peres and the Greek Byzantine Choir with Lycourgos Angelopoulos.

ALL-NIGHT VIGIL by PETER TCHAIKOVSKY
A passionate setting of ancient melodies that provided the model for Rachmaninoff's Vespers

Alexander Lingas directs Cappella Romana at the close of Bright Week--the week immediately following Orthodox Pascha (Easter)--with a passionate setting of the All-Night Vigil by Peter Tchaikovsky. Completed in 1882, Tchaikovsky was the first to treat the Vigil as a choral cycle, more than three decades before Rachmaninoff wrote his famous setting in 1915. Sung in the original Church Slavonic.

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Cappella Romana has experienced one more very successful year, and the board of directors and I are certain you will want to return this autumn as we begin of our twelfth annual series of concerts, under the keen guidance of musical director Alexander Lingas.

Take a look at next season's offerings -- I'm confident you'll want to subscribe. You'll hear medieval, romantic, and contemporary music; music in English, in Greek and Latin, and Slavonic; choral music with instruments, majestic chant, and choral music a cappella.

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You'll also have the chance to pre-order the Cappella's next CD The Akathistos Hymn. Details are in the subscription form.

This is our mission: to provide you the opportunity to hear music from the Christian traditions of East and West in scholarly and passionate performances.

Subscribe now for Cappella Romana's 2002-03 series VOICES OF PASSION. See you in the autumn!

Recording sessions for this exciting project are scheduled for August 2002, with the composer in attendance. Dr. Lingas will direct, after returning from Europe on a research trip.

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An excerpt of the Hymn was sung at the benefit receptions following the recent concerts in Portland and Seattle. Over $2,000 was raised at these events alone.

The artistic costs for this endeavor are ambitious, nearly $10,000 for artists, engineer, producer and digital editing. The recording will be presented in a double-CD format. If you would like to contribute to this worthy project, please contact our office at info@cappellaromana.org. Every gift counts!

Dr. Alexander Lingas, currently Assistant Professor of Music History at Arizona State University, discussed both medieval and contemporary music for the Orthodox Church. Excerpts from the CDs "Tikey Zes Choral Works," "When Augustus Reigned" are featured, as well as music from a live performance of "Epiphany: Festal Music from Old and New Rome".