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Chatter at the Museum: Raven Chacon

Free concert

When

Aug 21, 2025
06:00 PM - 07:30 PM

Where

Albuquerque Museum
2000 Mountain Rd. NW
Albuquerque, NM 87104
505-243-7255

Description

Chatter ABQ, in collaboration with 516 Arts, presents a rare performance of Raven Chacon’s American Ledger no. 1 performed by Chatter ensemble members. The narrative score tells the creation story of the founding of the United States. In chronological descending order, moments of contact, enactment of laws, events of violence, the building of cities, and erasure of land, and worldview are mediated through graphic notation and realized by sustaining and percussive instruments, coins, axe and wood, a police whistle, and a match. Chacon is the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize and the MacArthur Award, and his work is in the Museum’s permanent collection.

This concert series is made possible in part by New Mexico Arts.

Price

Free
Chatter at the Museum: Raven Chacon

Alt text: Detail of score by Raven Chacon

Contact

Elizabeth Becker
505-243-7255