📍 University Circle

Considering Matthew Shepard

 

Start: June 26, 2026 7:30 pm
End: June 26, 2026 9:30 pm

Severance Music Center
Address:
11001 Euclid Ave.
Cleveland, OH – 44106

Admission Price: $ ($0 - $25)

This 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. This concert is the culmination of a week-long intensive for singers, conductors, and collaborative pianists, The Cleveland Orchestra Summer Choral Institute.

 

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