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Conspirare:

House of Belonging

Conspirare, the GRAMMY® Award-winning choir known for expanding the boundaries of choral performance, will release House of Belonging on September 8 as they begin their 30th Season.

House of Belonging is a dynamic and timely collection of American music for voices and with instruments featuring a collaboration with the internationally-renowned Mir? Quartet. Craig Hella Johnson and Conspirare commissioned composers Alex Berko, Shara Nova, Kevin Puts, Michael Schachter, and Derrick Skye especially for the collaboration with the Mir? Quartet and the resulting album. Music of Margaret Bonds, Ross Lee Finney, Craig Hella Johnson, and Moira Smiley completes the album.

Curated and conducted by Craig Hella Johnson, the album showcases the unique combination of choral virtuosity and extraordinarily beautiful human expression in works by composers and poets diverse in age, geography, and ethnicity who speak to our internal and external sense of home and belonging. Each composer, in their unique voice, offers a reflection point for listeners.

Conspirare:

The Singing Guitar

The wonderful Conspirare chamber choir, known for its interpretive depth and otherworldly sonic lushness, offers another of its captivating programs-this time joined by three superb guitar quartets-in a program remarkably relevant to our time.

Conspirare's 2019 Delos album, The Hope of Loving (DE 3578), was nominated for a GRAMMY® Award for Best Choral Performance in 2020. The concert version of The Singing Guitar was performed to full houses in 2019. The combination of guitar quartet and chorus is so successful it's surprising that more composers have not written for it. Four recently written compositions feature the voices of Conspirare accompanied by guitar-twelve guitars in Nico Muhly's How Little You Are, a compelling composition telling of the struggles of pioneer women. Kile Smith's The Dawn's Early Light ponders our national anthem in the writings of a Native American woman, Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins. The album is rounded out with compositions by Reena Esmail and Conspirare's founder and director Craig Hella Johnson.

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