{"id":82238,"date":"2022-10-05T11:19:28","date_gmt":"2022-10-05T15:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/?p=82238"},"modified":"2022-10-06T10:12:52","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T14:12:52","slug":"preview-elora-singers-opens-season-concert-honouring-matthew-shepard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2022\/10\/05\/preview-elora-singers-opens-season-concert-honouring-matthew-shepard\/","title":{"rendered":"PREVIEW | The Elora Singers Open Season With Concert Honouring Matthew Shepard"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_82241\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-82241\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-82241\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/Elora-Singers-PREVIEW.jpg\" alt=\"Elora Singers (Photo: Bo Huang)\" width=\"1200\" height=\"628\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-82241\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elora Singers (Photo: Bo Huang)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Matthew Shepard, a young gay student at the University of Wyoming in Laramie, was kidnapped, beaten, tied to a fence and left to die in a field alone. American composer Craig Hella Johnson felt compelled to make this tragedy the drive behind his first concert-length work, Considering Matthew Shepard.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In our fractured world, it remains an important story, one that invites us to consider our own fears while allowing room for hope and healing,&#8221; said choir director <strong>Mark Vuorinen<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The Elora Singers will open their 2022-23 concert season with two special performances of this work on Saturday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elorasingers.ca\/events\/considering-matthew-shepard\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 15<\/a> at 2:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. at Harcourt Memorial United Church in Guelph.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis story holds so many layers of meaning and raises many questions,&#8221; said Craig Hella Johnson in a statement. &#8220;Surprisingly and remarkably, although remembering the suffering of Matthew Shepard can be intense and very dark, I continue to also experience a call to the inner light which this story profoundly transmits.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For full details about The Elora Singers\u2019 2022-2023 Concert Season, and to order tickets, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elorasingers.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elorasingers.ca.<\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"western\"><em><b>#LUDWIGVAN<\/b><\/em><\/h3>\n<p class=\"western\"><em>Get the daily arts news straight to your inbox.<\/em><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"western\"><em>Sign up for the Ludwig van Daily \u2014 classical music and opera in five minutes or less <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/ludwig-van.us9.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=4f785cb3f9058f2393ccad035&amp;id=57cdb68eac\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>HERE<\/em><\/a>.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Elora Singers will open their 2022-23 concert season with two special performances of &#8216;Considering Matthew Shepard&#8217; on Saturday, October 15.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":82241,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[39907,11,18,19,4967,4557],"tags":[5727,6592,17467],"yst_prominent_words":[7202,30693,39042,20964,20953,8399,10622,10621,11410,6736,20949,10287,7552,20952,7134,8986,9960],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/Elora-Singers-PREVIEW.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-loq","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82238"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82238"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82308,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82238\/revisions\/82308"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82238"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=82238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}