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Fresh Off the Page: New Music by Craig Hella Johnson
Step into an intimate listening room as 12 Conspirare singers workshop new music and explorations from Craig Hella Johnson right in front of you. Includes movements from This One Body (working title), a new multi-movement work.
Craig shared this about This One Body:
“The title holds two things at once: the one body each of us actually lives in, with all its ache and appetite and grace, and the larger body of all that is, of which we are each an inseparable and divine part. Around it I’m writing solo art songs for each of the twelve singers, as well as new songs in the musical theater tradition toward a possible larger work (a first musical), new choral music for Christmas and other Conspirare programs, and choral arrangements of songs by Eliza Gilkyson.
Underneath all of it is a question I can’t put down: how can the music I make serve the larger good? How can it help people wake to their own lives — how can I be a conduit for something soul-guided, something that brings joy and peace and healing, and draws us into real community with one another?”
Recommended Listening:
Considering Matthew Shepard and A Company of Voices: Conspirare in Concert
Thank you to Concert Sponsors:
- The Tejemos Foundation and Joel Brauer Fund for New Music
- Frances & Larry Collmann
- Lee Manford & Casey Blass
- Marvin J. Brittman, Sheri Clark Henriksen, Gail & Jeff Kodosky, Karen Linder, Nancy Scanlan, Carol Williams & Bill Fivecoat
- Cynthia Gonzales & Bill Guajardo, Trish & Robert J. Karli, Steve & DeeAnne Paulson
- Jolynn & Gregory Free, Susan & Jack Robertson, Susanne Tetzlaff and Eric Tiblier
This project is supported in part by an Elevate Grant of Austin Arts, Culture, Music and Entertainment.
To sponsor this event, please donate here! Sponsors at $5,000 and greater are included in the Producer’s Circle.
Sponsorships support Conspirare’s mission to transform lives through music; once production costs are met, all gifts support Conspirare’s mission in the area of greatest need.
Artistic Personnel
Craig Hella Johnson, conductor
SOPRANO
Emily Yocum Black – Paducah, KY
Chelsea Helm – Washington, DC
Kathlene Ritch – Santa Fe, NM
Kayleen Sanchez – San Marcos, TX
ALTO
Laura Mercado-Wright – Austin, TX
TENOR
Haitham Haidar – Montreal, QC
Wilson Nichols – New York, NY
Brendan Jacob Smith – Brooklyn, NY
BASS
Simon Barrad – San Francisco, CA
Gregory Fletcher – Moreno Valley, CA
Michael Hawes – Pflugerville, TX
Enrico Lagasca – New York City, NY
INSTRUMENTALISTS:
Tom Burritt, Percussion – Leander, TX
Patrice Calixte, Violin – Austin, TX
Zachariah Matteson, Violin – Austin, TX
Douglas Harvey, Cello – Austin, TX
John Fremgen, Bass – Austin, TX
Joseph Choi, Rehearsal Pianist – Austin, TX
