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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20260626
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URL:https://coolcleveland.com/events/matthew-shepherds-death-inspired-fusi
 on-oratorio-being-performed-at-severance-music-center/
SUMMARY:Matthew Shepherd's Death Inspired "Fusion Oratorio" Being Performed
  at Severance Music Center
DESCRIPTION:\nFri 6/26 @ 7:30PM\nComposer/arranger/conductor Craig Hella Jo
 hnson founded nonprofit performing arts/music education nonprofit and choi
 r Conspirare in 1991\, dedicated to music to “change lives\, inspire pea
 ce\, and foster belonging.” His “fusion oratorio\,” Considering Matt
 hew Shepherd\, combines musical styles and texts by poets such as Rumi\, H
 ildegard of Bingen\, Michael Dennis Browne and Lesléa Newman as well as e
 xcerpts from Shepherd’s journals\, and interviews and writing from his p
 arents\, newspaper reports of his death in 1998\, murdered for being gay.\
 nThe piece was premiered by Conspirare in 2016\, and has been performed by
  choirs all over the world. This weekend it will be performed at Severance
  Music Center by participants of the weeklong intensive\, the Cleveland Or
 chestra Summer Choral Institute\, conducted by Lisa Wong\, Director of Cho
 ruses for the Cleveland Orchestra\, and featuring members of the Cleveland
  Orchestra\, along with bass-baritone Dashon Burton.\nGo here for tickets.
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CATEGORIES:college,Teen,Education,History,Performance,----WRITERS----,Musi
 c: Popular,Anastasia Pantsios,Preview,RSS,Music: Jazz / Blues,Music:
 Classical,Literary
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