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Friday, July 25, 2008
Report from Austin’s Conspirare in Copenhagen
Christi Harlan, former Washington correspondent for the Statesman and sister of bass Robert Harlan of Austin-based Conspirare, is traveling with the group in Copenhagen. Here’s her first report:
COPENHAGEN — Austin-based Conspirare took its musical chops to international stages Thursday as the only U.S. choir to perform at the 8th World Symposium on Choral Music.
Under the direction of founder Craig Hella Johnson, Conspirare debuted a jazzy mass by Lithuanian composer Vytautus Miskinis at Copenhagen’s waterside opera house before moving to the imposing and historic Marble Church for a Thursday night program of American music.
With a bouncy Benedictus at the opera house and a haunting Dolly Parton anthem at the Marble Church, Conspirare demonstrated why it was one of 38 choirs to be invited from among 176 applicants from around the world.
“We listened to the tapes and the CDs,” said Steen Lindholm, executive director of the choral symposium. ” This was the program that influenced the judges.”
So Conspirare came to Copenhagen and conquered the stage — if not the herring. But that’s the rest of the story, and the rest of the oily details will be spilled next week …
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