Considering Matthew Shepard

Friday, June 6 at 7pm
Sunday, June 8 at 3pm

VIP Pre-concert Event (1 hour 15 minutes prior to concert, appetizers, cash bar, additional cost):

https://www.ticketleap.events/tickets/mcsnh/considering-matthew-shepard

Considering Matthew Shepard is a Grammy-nominated three-part oratorio composed by Craig Hella Johnson. The work is an evocative and compassionate musical response to the murder of Matthew Shepard, a young, gay college student at the University of Wyoming who in October 1998 was kidnapped, severely beaten, tied to a fence and left to die in a lonely field under a blanket of stars.

Considering Matthew Shepard transports listeners through a tapestry of musical textures and idioms in a poignant concert experience inspiring hope, compassion, and empowerment. The Washington Post called the work "powerfully cathartic," and wrote " ... this spellbinding piece draws on many styles masterfully juxtaposed, though Johnson's sources are the American vernacular. A Prologue, Passion and Epilogue ... combine spoken text, cowboy song, American hymnody and popular song, spirituals, jazz and dazzling polyphony, all woven into a seamless tapestry."

You may also like the following events from Manchester Choral Society:

• This Saturday, 17th May, 12:00 pm, Considering Matthew Shepard Preview at the Currier in Manchester

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