Consider

Name: Consider
Start: 2025-10-26T16:00:00-04:00
Location: Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Rockville

Schedule

Sun, 26 Oct, 2025 at 04:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Rockville | Rockville, MD

In partnership with the Rock Creek Singers of the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, Cantate Chamber Singers presents Craig Hella Johnson’s fusion oratorio Considering Matthew Shepard, the acclaimed composer’s evocative and compassionate musical response to the murder of a young gay man. Setting texts by poets including Michael Dennis Browne, Lesléa Newman, Hildegard of Bingen, and Rumi as well as passages from Matt’s personal journal, remarks from his parents Judy and Dennis Shepard, and newspaper reports, the “powerfully cathartic” work “leads us from horror and grief to a higher understanding of the human condition, enabling us to endure” (The Washington Post).