# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Considering Matthew Shepard
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sun, 09 Nov, 2025 at 03:00 pm
- **Event Description**: The University of Maine Singers and the Maine Gay Men’s Chorus in collaboration with UMaine’s Collegiate Chorale and Acadia Choral Society present Craig Hella Johnson’s oratorio Considering Matthew Shepard.

About the piece: Deeply moved by the murder of a young gay man, acclaimed conductor Craig Hella Johnson composed an evocative and compassionate musical response that leaves audiences hopeful and joyous. This three-part fusion oratorio speaks with a fresh and bold voice, incorporating a variety of musical styles seamlessly woven into a unified whole. Johnson sets a wide range of poetic and soulful texts by poets including Michael Dennis Browne, Lesléa Newman, Hildegard of Bingen and Rumi. Passages from Matt’s personal journal, interviews and writings from his parents Judy and Dennis Shepard, newspaper reports, and additional texts by Johnson and Browne are poignantly appointed throughout the work.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/orono/considering-matthew-shepard/200028991910022
- **Event Categories**: music, live-music, art, literary-art, entertainment
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 66

## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: https://www.collinscenterforthearts.com/event/considering-matthew-shepard/?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=orono-events

## Event venue details

- **city**: Orono
- **state**: ME
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Collins Center for the Arts
- **lat**: 44.8999101
- **long**: -68.6661318
- **full address**: Collins Center for the Arts, 2 Flagstaff Road,Orono,ME,United States

## Event Organizer details

- **affiliate_id**: 2
- **organizer**: Maine Gay Men's Chorus (https://allevents.in/org/maine-gay-mens-chorus/22364867)

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  - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events6/banners/99b34a5d513216bf0fcba387feaff5266c6d28874994a6a31e8664a369a1a9dd-rimg-w300-h300-dcd6d6d6-gmir?v=1762102815

## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Sun, 09 Nov, 2025 at 03:00 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Collins Center for the Arts, 2 Flagstaff Road,Orono,ME,United States
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Maine Gay Men's Chorus
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** music, live-music, art, literary-art, entertainment
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Considering Matthew Shepard ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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