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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 ...
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.
Cultural depictions of Matthew Shepard include notable films, musical works, novels, plays, and other works inspired by the 1998 Matthew Shepard murder, investigation, and resulting interest the case brought to the topic of hate crime. The best known is the stage play The Laramie Project, which was adapted into an HBO movie of the same name.
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.
Mar. 21—The Gonzaga Chamber Chorus will perform Craig Hella Johnson's "Considering Matthew Shepard" in collaboration with Spokane Kantorei during an event livestreamed from the Myrtle Woldson ...
A three-part oratorio will be performed in West Lafayette to mark the anniversary of gay Matthew Shepard's murder. Skip to main content. Sign in. Mail. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: ...
This ballad tells the story of the kidnapping, torture, and homicide of 21-year-old University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard, motivated by anti-gay sentiment. [1] [2] The image of a scarecrow was chosen because the bicyclist who found Matthew Shepard, tied to a fence, first thought that he was a scarecrow. The song criticizes hypocritical ...
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).