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Conspirare - Considering Matthew Shepard National Tour


Conspirare’s current touring project, Considering Matthew Shepard, is a Grammy-nominated three-part oratorio composed by Craig Hella Johnson. The work, which debuted at number four on Billboard’s Traditional Classical Chart, is an evocative and compassionate musical response to the murder of Matthew Shepard. Matthew Shepard was 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. When Shepard passed away, five days later, an offended world looked on  Composer Craig Hella Johnson had a profoundly personal reaction to both the murder and its resonance.

APRIL 2019

04.13.19 (7:30pm), Saturday 

Stanford University’s Bing Hall
327 Lasuen St., Stanford, CA 94032

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04.16.19 (7:30pm), Tuesday

University of Arizona’s Centennial Hall 

1020 E University Blvd., Tucson, AZ 85719

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