Cappella Romana has a long-standing interest in the Byzantine Empire-- its cultural context and long arm of influence after the Turkish conquest in 1453. Indeed, one purpose of the 11-year-old vocal ...

One of the dates squirreled away somewhere in my brain: 1453 -- The But until I listened to of Manuel Chrysaphes' "Lament for the Fall of Constantinople," the human dimensions -- emotional, ...

For 1,500 years Hagia Sophia has stood in the heart of the city once known as Constantinople, today's Istanbul. The world's largest building at the time of construction, and the world's largest ...

Regardless of whether you call it plainsong or Gregorian chant, the monophonic mode of sung prayer that goes back almost two millennia is usually heard in a big, reverberant acoustic, the singers ...