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

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

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.

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

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

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.



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.

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.

Grab-and-go appetizer plates and a selection of beverages will be available for purchase from Slate Street Cafe.

3rd Thursday at Albuquerque Museum is free to the public, thanks to the generous support of the Urban Enhancement Trust Fund, the City of Albuquerque Department of Arts & Culture, and the Albuquerque Museum Foundation.

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