The Dessoff Choirs, hailed as “one of the great amateur choruses of our time” (New York Today) for its “full-bodied sound and suppleness” (The New York Times), presents the New York premiere of Craig Hella Johnson’s Considering Matthew Shepard, a three-part fusion oratorio about Matthew Shepard, a young, gay student at the University of Wyoming in Laramie who was kidnapped, severely beaten, tied to a fence and left to die. The story is illustrated by incorporating a variety of musical styles seamlessly woven into a unified whole.