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Bach's Mass in B Minor is the center around which Conspirare orbits, and next week the choir will be performing the work for the third time since it was founded in 1991. "It feels like a return to our foundation and our roots," says director Craig Hella Johnson.

Austin's new professional chorus is the perfect size for singing early music

With its presentation of sacred choral works by early 20th-century German composer Hugo Distler, the Conspirare Choir put its versatility on best display and provided a sequence of absolutely divine sounds.

A leap to Conspirare from the Blanton and a resignation at Zilker Theatre Productions

On Monday, June 3, the Austin Critics Table handed out its annual awards for outstanding achievements in the Austin arts in a ceremony at the Capitol City Comedy Club.

The Austin Critics Table is about to hand out its annual awards for achievement in the arts for the 10th year, and the list of nominees is longer than ever.

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.

UT composer Dan Welcher commemorates JFK: The Voice of Peace 40 years after the President's scheduled visit to Austin.

The new Texas Touring Roster arrives

The Austin Theatre Critics Table have announced the nominations for their ninth annual awards for achievement in the arts.

On the Funding Front

Deming Now Dean

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

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

What we’re listening to

The New Texas Music Works rendition of Carl Orff's masterwork Carmina Burana was the usual exhilarating sonic roller-coaster of songs about love and lust and way too much drinking in the Middle Ages, but the exuberance of conductor Craig Hella Johnson also made it feel like a good new friend was introducing us to one of his favorite old friends.

The nominees for the 2010 Austin Critics Table Awards

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

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A program designed for Conspirare to flex its muscles and show off its versatility, which it did with great success

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.

Chronicle Arts Editor Robert Faires recaps 2007 in dance and classical music

Nominations for the 2005-2006 Austin Critics Table Awards

The Conspirare choir can do anything, from communicating a work's sonorous beauty to delivering well-placed, carefully planned emotional punches, and they did both in their recent performance of the Bach B Minor Mass.

The production manager for the choral group Conspirare has died

At Conspirare's concert Wondrous Journey, the sheer pleasure that this choral ensemble's members take in singing shone through even more resplendently than usual

'Through the Green Fuse,' Conspirare's first professional recording, is a shimmering, iridescent prayer in which the beauty of the subject is magnified by the sensitivity and sensuousness of these voices

Conspirare's midsummer concert of choral works from the Renaissance provided yet another example of enchanting song by this local treasure

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

Classical companies respond to the economic crisis before the fat lady can sing