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SUMMARY:Kassia: Music for Lent by the World’s Earliest Female Composer
LOCATION:St. Mary’s Cathedral 1739 NW Couch St Portland\, OR 97209
DESCRIPTION:cappella Romana+ john michael boyer Born in ninth-century Cons
 tantinople\, Kassia the Nun was a precocious scholar\, defender of icons\,
  abbess\, poet\, and composer. She stands as the preeminent woman hymnogra
 pher of the Byzantine tradition. Her hymns — composed three centuries be
 fore Hildegard — still resound in Orthodox worship today\, her voice esp
 ecially echoing through Lent and Holy Week. Her most famous work\, known p
 opularly as “The Hymn of Kassianí\,” is a hauntingly beautiful lament
  of the anonymous woman who anointed Jesus’s feet before his crucifixion
 . Startlingly direct and deeply emotional\, it has inspired countless sett
 ings over the centuries\, which can last over four times the length of the
  medieval melody! Her odes for Holy Saturday extol Christ’s descent into
  hell and liberation of captive souls\; these hymns were later suppressed 
 in favor of texts by male poets\, restored here by Cappella Romana. Discov
 er Kassia’s medieval melodies as she herself sang them — before centur
 ies of tradition shaped them into the versions Orthodox faithful know toda
 y. Program Kassia The Hymn of Kassianí Odes for Holy Saturday\n\nhttps://
 cappellaromana.org/concerts/kassia-portland/
URL;VALUE=URI:https://cappellaromana.org/concerts/kassia-portland/
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