 Music was performed by the Gay Men's Chorus of Washington DC, GenOUT, and Conspirare, which performed Craig Hella Johnson's "Considering Matthew Shepard".His was the first interment of the ashes of a national figure at the cathedral since Helen Keller's fifty years earlier.Matthew Shepard's life, death, trial, and its aftermath have inspired numerous works, including documentary and narrative films and television shows, stage plays (such as "The Laramie Project"), and musical and written works.