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The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2016-04-04 18:54:45
Matthew Shepard’s Lesson to All
Part oratorio, part message, part celebration, part tribute, part ritual, Considering Matthew Shepard stands above all as a musical consideration of freedom of the soul. In about 100 continuous minutes of chorus, vocal soli, spoken text, and small instrumental ensemble, it tells us how the senseless torture-murder of a 17-year-old gay man in Wyoming echoes and re-echoes in a world that must confront and overcome hatred and prejudice if the human species is to have any hope of surviving. Craig Hella Johnson, composer and choral conductor from Texas who has been heralded as the Robert Shaw of our time, assembled a surprisingly coherent panoply of musical sources and styles. Johnson led three first performances this February in Texas (Austin) and California (Pasadena and Los Angeles) with his own group, Conspirare, which mustered 29 professional singers at the premiere; Saturday’s performance in Sanders Theater brought together the Harvard Glee Club, Radcliffe Choral […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2016-03-29 19:25:20
Remembering Matthew’s Passion
The “fusion-oratorio” Considering Matthew Shepard tells the story of the infamous 1998 murder and its aftermath. Conceived as a 21st-century oratorio-passion, Craig Hella Johnson ,’s work sets texts by Lesléa Newman, Hafiz, Hildegard von Bingen, Rabindranath Tagore, W.S. Mervin, Blake, Rumi, Dante, and others in a variety of musical styles. On April 2nd at 8pm in Sanders Theater, the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum, Harvard Glee Club, and Radcliffe Choral Society will present the East Coast premiere under the Grammy Award-winning conductor/composer. For a postconcert conversation with the audience, poet and lyricist Lesléa Newman (author of Heather Has Two Mommies among other works) will join Jason Marsden, executive director of the Matthew Shepard Foundation , Johnson, and Harvard professor Timothy Patrick McCarthy. Michael McGaghie, assistant professor of music and director of choral activities at Macalester College, will give the preconcert talk at 7pm. The project is sponsored by the Open Gate: A Fund […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2015-10-23 23:15:49
BPO Pairs Two Mystical Classics
[…] lilting melodies, fleet of foot, elusive; Zander strived to make it “sound like magic”. Uranus was another romp, although Holst’s daughter, who was the 11-year-old Zander’s harmony and music theory teacher in England, professed to consider it inferior. The Philharmonic proved otherwise last night. Holst brings the seven-planet excursion to a soft landing with Neptune, the mystic body. He lets this final piece fade away with a celestial women’s choir offstage, for this occasion the Radcliffe Choral Society. The fadeout is crucial to the illusion of deep space, and Zander held the audience in thrall as the voices became inaudible. Then for a full minute he stood immobile on the podium in total silence. It was a precious moment. After this reflective mood, the audience rose for a prolonged ovation. True to form, Zander wove his way through the orchestra picking out his soloists for a bow before finally taking […]
All the conducting master class
2015-04-13 17:27:45
Resident Conductor, Radcliffe Choral Society (RCS), the Harvard women’s choir A post-graduate fellowship of the Harvard College Choral Program and Office for the Arts The Resident Conductor will assist the Director of Choral Activities (the conductor of RCS) in leading rehearsals, concert planning, auditions, and artistic leadership of performance projects and tours as assigned. The Resident Conductor […]
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