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BY BRETT CAMPBELL
CAPPELLA ROMANA
Land of the Free (music)
Music plays while the GOP convenes
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The following week at the Atrium, on Sept. 8, Cascadia
Concert Opera (CCO) returns for its fourth season, this
time presenting an abridged, hourlong version of German
composer Otto Nicolai’s 1849 opera, The Merry Wives of
Windsor. Based on Shakespeare’s play, it’s probably more
familiar from concert performances of its overture than
as a fully staged opera (or actually singspiel, which uses
spoken dialogue rather than recitative).
Composed of professional Oregon classical players
from Eugene, Corvallis and beyond, CCO also performs
in alternative venues such as nursing homes, community
centers, etc. in Eugene, the Oregon Coast, Portland and
elsewhere. They’ll be performing a full-length (and
ticketed) version of the show in October at Springfi eld’s
Wildish Theater, Lane Community College and out of
town, but these entertaining condensed performances
(stripped down to a few singers playing major roles and
a pianist), while making a splendid teaser, also stand on
their own.
ith the Republican convention wrapping up this
week, it’s a perfect time to celebrate the party’s
platform philosophy of getting something (yet
more tax breaks for zillionaires, or roads, schools and
other components of civilized society, say) for (apparently)
nothing. Over the next week or so, you can hear some
sweet summer music downtown for free.
Two of the shows happen at the long-time home of
free afternoon concerts, the Atrium Building. On Sept.
1, the courtyard will ring with Celtic music from fi ddler
Linda Danielson and Celtic harpist Janet Naylor,
familiar from many appearances at Saturday Market
and other bands, including Celtic Tradition with fellow
Irish musician Joe Ross. Naylor is also a member of
Americanistan and has performed Celtic music in Sheela
na Gig and the Renaissance ensemble Terra Nova Consort,
while Danielson is well known for accompanying contra
dances and English country dancing, plus fi ddling in the
cowgirl band, the Slow Ponies.
EVENTS
Yet another free show is on stage at downtown’s First
United Methodist Church, 13th & Olive, as its worthy
Concerts at First season begins with a recital by Brazilian
pianist Priscilla Dantas, a UO student and piano prodigy
from an impoverished background in her home country who
was discovered by Professor Alexandre Dossin after winning
regional and national competitions in Brazil. She came to
Oregon as a foreign exchange student at Churchill High.
Of course, unlike the Republicans, the rest of us understand
that anything of value must be paid for, so the organizations
that sponsor these performances, and the musicians who
devote endless hours to preparing these performances, would
certainly appreciate any donations (including nonperishable
food donations to FOOD for Lane County for the Methodist
church series) you might provide to help keep the music
fl owing.
One splendid new disc arrived just too late to make my last
column of CD reviews of new releases by Oregon musicians.
The Portland-based choir Cappella Romana is not only one
of the fi nest vocal ensembles in the West, it’s also renowned
for being the world’s primary exponent of music from the
Byzantine era. The music of the ancient Eastern Roman
empire and Greek and Russian Orthodox churches has until
recently been relatively neglected in the West but has recently
been experiencing a revival, driven by growing interest in
world music and chant, and by scholarship (including work by
Cappella’s England-based director, Portland native Alexander
Lingas) that’s brought many powerful songs back to circulation
after lying in obscurity for centuries.
During its 20th anniversary this year, the group journeyed
to its music’s homeland and recorded its resonant new album
— by far its most diverse yet — in concerts on the island
of Paros. The collection includes works by Cretan court
musicians Angelos Gregoriou and Manuel Gazes and other
15th and 16th century composers as well as modern choral
settings of Byzantine chant, and is well worth the money saved
by attending the aforementioned free concerts.
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