{"id":2911,"date":"2018-09-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-07T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/2018\/09\/grammy-winning-conspirare-to-perform-considering-matthew-shepard-at-transylvania\/"},"modified":"2020-07-14T13:54:52","modified_gmt":"2020-07-14T17:54:52","slug":"grammy-winning-conspirare-to-perform-considering-matthew-shepard-at-transylvania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/2018\/09\/grammy-winning-conspirare-to-perform-considering-matthew-shepard-at-transylvania\/","title":{"rendered":"Grammy-winning Conspirare to perform &#8216;Considering Matthew Shepard&#8217; at Transylvania"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/CMS_FacebookEventPicture-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3003\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/09\/CMS_FacebookEventPicture-2.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/09\/CMS_FacebookEventPicture-2-350x197.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/09\/CMS_FacebookEventPicture-2-730x411.jpg 730w, https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/09\/CMS_FacebookEventPicture-2-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/09\/CMS_FacebookEventPicture-2-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/09\/CMS_FacebookEventPicture-2-810x456.jpg 810w, https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/09\/CMS_FacebookEventPicture-2-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Transylvania University and the Dorothy J. and Fred K. Smith Concert Series will present Grammy award-winning Conspirare in a performance of \u201cConsidering Matthew Shepard\u201d on Tuesday, Oct. 9, at 7:30 p.m. in Haggin Auditorium (Mitchell Fine Arts Center). This evocative choral drama, composed by Craig Hella Johnson, is a mix of musical textures and idioms that defy genre and come together to create a sense of hope, compassion, unity and empowerment.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">The national tour comes to Lexington nearly 20 years to the day when Matthew Shepard\u2019s life was taken in an anti-gay hate crime. The choral and instrumental masterpiece tells Shepard\u2019s story and reverberates with larger questions.\u00a0\u201cMatt\u2019s story is not unique,\u201d his mother, Judy Shepard, reminds us. \u201cIt\u2019s a universal story.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Craig Hella Johnson uses a wide range of poetic texts that span centuries and include contemporary writers Lesl\u00e9a Newman and Michael Dennis Browne, in addition to works of Hildegard of Bingen, Rumi and Hafiz. Passages from Matthew Shepard\u2019s personal journal, interviews and writings from his parents, Judy and Dennis Shepard, as well as newspaper reports add to texts by Johnson and Browne.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">The power in the work, as described by The Washington Post, \u201cdemonstrates music\u2019s capacity to encompass, transform and transcend tragedy. Powerfully cathartic, it leads us from horror and grief to a higher understanding of the human condition, enabling us to endure.\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">\u201cConsidering Matthew Shepard\u201d is presented as part of Transylvania\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/events\"><span class=\"s1\">New Frontiers<\/span><\/a> series, which explores new ideas and perspectives through the arts, humanities and sciences. It also represents the university\u2019s year-long exploration of \u201ccivility\u201d as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/newsroom\/creative-intelligence\"><span class=\"s2\">campus theme<\/span><\/a>. The public is invited to campus to share in these experiences\u2014including free admission and parking.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Tickets are required and are available at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/newsroom\/new-frontiers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">transy.edu\/events<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">A resource fair featuring community organizations will take place at 6:30 p.m., one hour prior to the 7:30 p.m. performance.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>The composer will take part in a discussion immediately following the concert.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Transylvania University and the Dorothy J. and Fred K. Smith Concert Series will present Grammy award-winning Conspirare in a performance of \u201cConsidering Matthew Shepard\u201d on Tuesday, Oct. 9, at 7:30 p.m. in Haggin Auditorium (Mitchell Fine Arts Center). This evocative choral drama, composed by Craig Hella Johnson, is a mix of musical textures and idioms that defy genre and come together to create a sense of hope, compassion, unity and empowerment.\u00a0 The national tour comes to Lexington nearly 20 years to the day when Matthew Shepard\u2019s life was taken in an anti-gay hate crime. The choral and instrumental masterpiece tells Shepard\u2019s story and reverberates with larger questions.\u00a0\u201cMatt\u2019s story is not unique,\u201d his mother, Judy Shepard, reminds us. \u201cIt\u2019s a universal story.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Craig Hella Johnson uses a wide range of poetic texts that span centuries and include contemporary writers Lesl\u00e9a Newman and Michael Dennis Browne, in addition to works of Hildegard of Bingen, Rumi and Hafiz. Passages from Matthew Shepard\u2019s personal journal, interviews and writings from his parents, Judy and Dennis Shepard, as well as newspaper reports add to texts by Johnson and Browne.\u00a0 The power in the work, as described by The Washington Post, \u201cdemonstrates music\u2019s capacity to encompass, transform and transcend tragedy. Powerfully cathartic, it leads us from horror and grief to a higher understanding of the human condition, enabling us to endure.\u201d\u00a0 \u201cConsidering Matthew Shepard\u201d is presented as part of Transylvania\u2019s New Frontiers series, which explores new<\/p>\n<p class=\"continueLink\"><a class=\"btn btn-info\" href=\"https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/2018\/09\/grammy-winning-conspirare-to-perform-considering-matthew-shepard-at-transylvania\/\">Read &ldquo;Grammy-winning Conspirare to perform &#8216;Considering Matthew Shepard&#8217; at Transylvania&rdquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":2914,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[30,64],"tags":[71],"feeds":[],"class_list":["post-2911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-new-frontiers","tag-new-frontiers"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Grammy-winning Conspirare to perform &#039;Considering Matthew Shepard&#039; at Transylvania - Transylvania University - 1780<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"\u00a0 Transylvania University and the Dorothy J. and Fred K. 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