Author: Lamar Smith
Opening Weekend Concert with Wadada Leo Smith and Raven Chacon
As a student at CalArts in the early aughts, Raven Chacon studied with renowned composer-performer Wadada Leo Smith. The creative agency of Smith’s Ankhrasmation Symbolic Music Language inspired Chacon to develop compositions that give performers autonomy in choosing what they play. Twenty years later, the two artists share a joint concert at Arts and Letters, where each has a… Read More