SVS faculty member to direct Cappella Romana opening season concerts

PORTLAND, OR [OCA Communications] — Mark Bailey, liturgical music instructor at Saint Vladimir’s Seminary, Crestwood, NY and artistic director of the Yale Russian Chorus, will direct the processional vocal ensemble Capella Romana in its season opening concerts here featuring Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s influential and rarely heard masterpiece, the Divine Liturgy, Opus 41.

Concerts will be held at Portland’s Saint Mary Cathedral, 1716 NW Dvis, on Friday, November 3, at 8:00 p.m. On Saturday, November 4, the concert will be performed at Holy Rosary Church, 4139 42nd Ave SW, West Seattle, WA, at 8:00 p.m.

Selected liturgical works by Rimsky-Korakov, Chesnokov, and the Very Rev. Sergei Glagolev also will be featured.

Pre-concert talks will be held each evening at 7:00 p.m.

Tickets are available for $25.00. Student and senior discounts are available. Tickets may be ordered by calling 800-992-8499 and at www.cappellaromana.org.

Mr. Bailey will work with Cappella Romana in a week-long residency prior to these performances.

Founded in 1991 by current artistic director Alexander Lingas, 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. Cappella Romana receives funding from the Regional Arts and Culture Council, Portland; the Oregon Arts Commission; the National Endowment for the Arts; the Virginia H. Farah Foundation; the A. G. Leventis Foundation; the John Angel Foundatio; and the Schilizzi Foundation.