Chatter at the Museum: Alban Berg, Mátyás Seiber
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Chatter ABQ’s August 2025 concert series is inspired by the exhibition Modern Art and Politics in Germany 1910-1945, which opens August 23. The series features works by composers whose work was censored as “degenerate music” by the Nazi regime in 1930s Germany.
This program returns to Europe with the sweeping Lyric Suite for string quartet by pioneering pantonalist Alban Berg, alongside the Divertimento for clarinet and string quartet by Mátyás Seiber. A Hungarian composer who later lived and worked in the United Kingdom, Seiber was the director of the jazz program at Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt, which offered the first academic jazz courses anywhere before it was closed by the Nazis in 1933, precipitating Seiber’s departure from Germany. This concert features Chatter’s Artistic Director, violinist David Felberg, and Associate Artistic Director, clarinetist James Shields.
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Chatter Ensemble: Elizabeth Young, Luke Gullickson, David Felberg, James Shields, Jesse Tatum
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Alt text: photo of Chatter musical artists with their instruments.