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Yet "Considering Matthew Shepard," based on the life and death of a gay Wyoming student, has worked miraculously in small towns with community and college choirs as well. Some perform a shortened ...
October Mourning by Lesléa Newman, a novel in verse about Matthew's murder, was published in 2012. [4] [5] Reception for the work has been favorable.[6] [7] [8] Composer Craig Hella Johnson used parts of the book for her production Considering Matthew Shepard, combining the text with content taken from places such as the Bible and Shepard's journal.
— The Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, signed by then-President Barack Obama in 2009. The act expanded the federal hate crime law to include crimes based on a ...
A three-part oratorio will be performed in West Lafayette to mark the anniversary of gay Matthew Shepard's murder. Anti-hate performance honors 25 years since Matthew Shepard's murder Skip to main ...
In the spring of 2016, Collegium performed at the Boston ACDA Convention and sang the fusion-oratorio Considering Matthew Shepard under the direction of its composer, Craig Hella Johnson. Collegium's season concluded with a performance of Aaron Copland's In the Beginning with mezzo-soprano soloist Maddie Studt '16.
On February 8, 2015, he and Conspirare won the Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance for their album The Sacred Spirit of Russia (Harmonia mundi HMU 807526). Johnson premiered his first concert-length work, Considering Matthew Shepard, in 2016.
The two-hour documentary special “The Matthew Shepard Story: An American Hate Crime” airs Monday, Oct. 9, at 9 p.m. ET on ID (ahead of the 25th anniversary of Shepard’s death on Oct. 12).
The act expands the federal hate-crime law to include crimes motivated by gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability. It is named after Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr., who were murdered in 1998 for their sexual orientation and race, respectively.