Considering Matthew Shepard Oratorio

Matthew Shepard was 21, a college student, and gay when he was brutally beaten by two homophobes who left him to die by the roadside outside Laramie, Wyoming in 1998. Matthew’s story shocked his nation’s and, in fact, the world’s conscience;  it has come to be known as the hate-crime that began to change his country, and likely our own.  Movies, plays, articles and songs have told the story but Considering Matthew Shepard frames the narrative as an evocative, compassionate, ultimately uplifting musical response to Matthew’s tragedy.  For this work of artistic accomplishment, Craig Hella Johnson, the composer of Considering Matthew Shepard, was honoured with a 2017 American Grammy nomination.

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