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Austin’s Conspirare nets two Grammy noms
This is absolutely awesome.
Austin chorus Conspirare just received two Grammy nominations tonight for its recent CD ‘Tarik O’Regan: Threshold Of Night.’
The CD, issued on the Harmonia Mundi label, has been nominated for Best Classical Album and Best Choral Performance. “Threshold” features the music of 30-year-old British composer O’Regan. Conspirare debuted the O’Regan’s works live in Austin September 2007, then recorded it the next month in the famous Troy Bank Music Hall. “Threshold” has gotten rave reviews since its September release.
Directed and founded by Craig Hella Johnson, Conspirare received two Grammy nominations in 2007 for its CD “Requiem.” Johnson has an inspired vision of what a chorus can be in the 21st century — open to new music, vital and relevant to its audience, honorific of its musical past.
Conspirare presents its annual holiday concert Monday night at the Long Center with special guest Eliza Gilkyson. See www.conspirare.org for more information. It’s bound to be one heck of a celebration. And deservedly so.
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