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Austin choral ensemble performed at National Cathedral service

CD of Russian music earns Austin choral ensemble its first win

The esteemed choir scores a Dutch Grammy and support for a new commission

The Grammy-nominated choir leads off its Legacy of Sound campaign with a seven-figure gift

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For Austin's sterling choral ensemble Conspirare, the first few months of 2006 has seen concerts here and far away and the release of a new and most comforting CD

Grammy-nominated Conspirare brings together 600 voices in search of our national sound

Conspirare sings of deep hope in the midst of great suffering

To accompany the screening of Alexander Nevsky, Eisenstein's 1938 epic film about the 13th-century Russian hero and the army he led to defeat a German invasion, maestro Peter Bay led his own army -- some 200 musicians from the Austin Symphony and Conspirare choir -- that performed Prokofiev's epic score with grandeur and a stirring power.

CD of Russian sacred music earns Conspirare Grammy nom no. 6

In its latest festival, Conspirare finds passions thriving in 21st century music

The Austin chorus sings the praises of four classical composers – with new music

On the heels of its balletic colleagues, Chrous Austin melds music and movement to voice the unutterable

A program of songs sacred, secular, and straddling those two realms, all by Italian Renaissance composer Claudio Monteverdi, provided Conspirare with another opportunity to provide that which it does so well: powerful, ethereal song that seems to come directly from the distant, historical source yet has all the immediacy of new work.

Local chorus Conspirare, headed to New York City for the American Choral Directors Association convention, previewed the trip with a local concert of what amounted to two programs: a collection spanning Renaissance to modern works and a mostly modern collection of songs ranging from the flowing to the formal, the basic to the brash.

For its first concert of the 2002-03 season, Conspirare offered a striking premiere of Hymn to the Earth, by local composer Donald Grantham, then conductor Craig Hella Johnson led a gregarious and eager mob in a sing-along version of Carl Orff's popular Carmina Burana.

Conspirare revealed how this composer does go gentle into that good night

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The virtuosi who know the score and make beautiful music happen here

The nominees for the 2009 Austin Critics Table Awards

Craig Hella Johnson's company of voices has long been world-class; now the world is hearing it

Listening to Conspirare sing Tarik O'Regan's music, we held infinity in our ears

With Conspirare’s Christmas at the Carillon and Austin Civic Chorus’ Sing It Yourself ‘Messiah’, you’ll get a thrilling dose of that most potent Christmas commodity: song!

Composer Nico Muhly's How Little You Are evokes the vastness of the West with a choir and 12 guitars

Ancient voices, singing strings, and lots of Bach made 2011 a fine year for ears

Maestro Peter Bay likes to play with others – especially when they're outside the orchestra

Austin Symphony conductor Peter Bay has tremendous regard for both Sergei Prokofiev's score and Sergei Eisenstein's images for the 1938 film Alexander Nevsky, and as he prepares for a live performance of the score as the film is being shown, he talks about this remarkable fusion of image and music and what's involved in performing it live.

The penultimate night of the 2001 New Texas Festival saw a reduced Conspirare Choir of 12 singers under the direction of Craig Hella Johnson compare and contrast selections by 16th-century composer Giovanni Pierluigi Da Palestrina and 20th-century composer Arvo Pärt in an evening that displayed just how exquisite Johnson's choir is.

May

A choral welcome to the new year that opened one up to all time and all creation