The chorale, a truly pan-Orthodox Christian chorale, founded and directed by Dr. William Attra, is composed of singers from seven Orthodox Christian Churches in Houston, Spring, Austin, and Beaumont, Texas as well as Shreveport, Louisiana. The chorale meets three or four times a year in various cities to present the spirituality and beauty of Orthodox Christian Music.
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Our CD, "Rejoice, O Queen" is available for purchase! This wonderful CD contains 24 beautiful hymns to the Mother of God, including megalynarions, kontakions and other hymns which are sung throughout the liturgical year. Please see the blog about our CD for ordering information!
We also have a cassette available for purchase. It is a collection of hymns from the Easter season, including parts of the Lamentations, Holy God sung in Slavonic, a gorgeous version of the Hymn of Kassiani sung in Greek, O Lord of Hosts sung in Arabic and more moving and beautiful hymns in English celebrating the Resurrection! See blog for ordering information!
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The St. Romanos Chorale takes its name from St. Romanos, a Syrian religious poet and hymnographer of the Eastern Orthodox Christian Church, considered to be the greatest of the Byzantine melodist-poets. The music, in both Byzantine and Russin styles, is sung predominately in English as well as Greek, Arabic and Slavonic.
The St. Romanos Chorale has presented the beautiful and spiritual music of the Holy Orthodox Church throughout the Southwest, from the lower Rio Grande Valley, Dallas, Houston, Galveston, Ft. Worth, Austin, Waco, Beaumont, Texas to New Orleans and Shreveport, Louisiana. The chorale has been invited and accepted invitations from many major colleges and universities in the South and Southwest, including The University of Texas, Rice University, Baylor University and three presentations at Tulane Universtity. Over the years, presentations have been made at least three times in the internationally acclaimed Rothko Chapel.
The St. Romanos Chorale is self-funded. These trips and presentations, to which the public is invited, are made without cost to the host parish or venue. No admission charge is made and no donations are solicited. We are simply "putting Orthodoxy on wheels" as it has been called and and it is our privilege to share the richly spiritual and beautiful music of our church with people everywhere. If you are interested in having the St. Romanos Chorale perform at your parish or event, please let us know!
.. 25 juny: Santa Febronia, virgen y mártir, en Sibápolis de Siria; 305, la cual en la persecución de Diocleciano, por conservar la fe y la castidad, por mandato del presidente Lisímaco, primeramente fue azotada con nervios, y atormentada en el potro, después descarnada con peines de hierro, y echada en el fuego; finalmente habiéndole arrancado los dientes y cortado los pechos, por último la degollaron, y adornada de tantas joyas de tormentos, voló a su Esposo.
More honorable than the Cherubim, and beyond compare more glorious than the Seraphim, thee who without corruption gavest birth to God the Word, the very Theotokos, thee do we magnify.
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