3RD THURSDAY — Chatter

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3rd Thursday:

Chatter

August 19, 2021 | 6–8 p.m.

Masks are required indoors for all Museum staff and visitors, regardless of vaccination status.

6 p.m. Chatter performs in the Ventana Salon

Please note: Ticketed seating for this concert is sold out. You will be able to enjoy the music from the lobby in an informal atmosphere.

Returning to the aesthetic world of the Transcendental Painting Group, Chatter presents a major work of Ruth Crawford Seeger, Music for Small Orchestra, alongside the famous Appalachian Spring by Aaron Copland, who visited New Mexico in 1928 and soaked up the arts and geography of the region while searching for a deeply American sound. Chatter will also perform the visually virtuosic Concert for Piano and Orchestra by John Cage — a work that was dedicated to Elaine de Kooning whose self-portrait appears in the museum’s exhibit, Eye to I.

Jesse Tatum - flute

James Shields - clarinet

Samantha Brenner - bassoon

Judith Gordon, Luke Gullickson - piano

Ruxandra Marquardt, Megan Holland, Elizabeth Young, Emily Cole - violin

Allie Norris, Laura Steiner - viola

James Holland, Dana Winograd - cello

Sam Brown - bass

David Felberg - conductor

7 p.m. The Feast video screening in the Auditorium

Presented by FUSION, New Mexico's professional theater company, THE FEAST is a three-course theatrical celebration of the exhibition Another World: The Transcendental Painting Group. Three 20-minute video performances will be shown in their entirety.

The Transcendental Tango

Love letters between intellect Margaret Fuller and writer Ralph Waldo Emerson fuel a romantic, lyrical dance as they confront the tyranny of love.

A Séance of Solace

Painter Agnes Pelton guides a group of aspiring women artists capturing their divine light on the way to finding ghosts of the past.

You Say Theosophy, I Say Philosophy…Let’s Call the Whole Thing Lust

In this madcap frolic, social doyenne Mable Dodge collects the leading theosophists of the day, including the great dancer/choreographer Rukmini Devi Arundale, for an evening of yoga and charades.

6:30 p.m. Yoga on the Museum Overlook

Join a YogaZo instructor for a free yoga flow. Grab your mat and meet us for a 60 minute yoga flow built with you in mind.

Florence Miller Pierce, Blue Forms, 1942, oil on canvas, collection of Georgia and Michael de Havenon, New York

Galleries will be open

Visit the exhibition Another World: The Transcendental Painting Group to see works by Raymond Jonson, Emil Bisttram, Agnes Pelton, Lawren Harris, Florence Miller Pierce, Horace Pierce, Robert Gribbroek, William Lumpkins, Dane Rudhyar, Stuart Walker, and Ed Garman. These artists carry painting beyond the appearance of the physical world, through concepts of space, color, light and design, to imaginative realms that are idealistic and spiritual.