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鈥淭his program, is a signature program of True Concord,鈥� Holtan said.

The program opens with Randall Thompson鈥檚 1959 work 鈥淔rostiana: Seven Country Songs鈥� and includes Stephen Foster鈥檚 classics 鈥淛eanie with the Light Brown Hair鈥� and 鈥淪wanee River.鈥� But in the mix, Holtan has programmed the Mexican folk song 鈥淟a Llorona鈥� (鈥淭he weeping woman鈥�) and 鈥淭ipitin,鈥� a song written by Maria Grever, Mexico鈥檚 first female composer to gain international acclaim.

鈥淪ongs of America鈥� aren鈥檛 necessarily songs composed by Americans so much as 鈥渢he songs and the music that celebrate the incredible diversity of who we are as American people,鈥� Holtan said.

The program connects the dots from the African-American spirituals 鈥淗e鈥檚 Got the Whole world in His Hands鈥� and 鈥淎in鈥�-a That Good 蜜柚直播!鈥� to 鈥淕entle Annie鈥� and 鈥淏eautiful Dreamer.鈥�

鈥淚t鈥檚 eclectic and diverse,鈥� Holtan said.

One voice Holtan really wanted to include this year was , the composer, musician and visual/multimedia artist from the Navajo Nation whose 2021 chamber work 鈥淰oiceless Mass鈥� won a Pulitzer Prize for music last year. It was the first time a Native American composer won a Pulitzer for composing.

Chacon, who spent his early years at Fort Defiance on the Navajo Nation before his family moved to Albuquerque, wrote 鈥淰oiceless Mass鈥� after his 2021 video project 鈥淭hree Songs.鈥�

鈥淭hree Songs鈥� features a trio of Indigenous women 鈥� one each from the Navajo Nation, Yuchi Nation and Seminole Nation 鈥� each singing songs in their traditional languages about incidents in their tribal history of displacement, massacre, forced relocation and forced migration.

The Navajo woman sings about the Navajo Long Walk at the Peabody coal mining conveyor belt near Tuba City. The Yuchi is on the banks of the Arkansas River singing about the people who died on the Trail of Tears en route to Oklahoma. And a Seminole elder stands on the tribal nation in Oklahoma singing about the forced relocation of her people from their southeastern U.S. homeland.

Each woman鈥檚 songs are connected by the snare drum, which was used by the Cavalry to signal U.S. participation in these atrocities, Chacon said during a phone call late last month.

Chacon said using the snare drum 鈥渨as a way to reclaim the instrument and use it to take on the burden of singing those songs.鈥�

In 鈥淰oiceless Mass,鈥� Chacon uses the organ as the primary voice to express how the Catholic Church and other Christian churches made his community and other minority communities voiceless.

鈥淭here鈥檚 a history of Indigenous people of suppressing not only voices of those people both in the conversion of Indigenous people into Catholicism and other Christian beliefs but also leading to residential schools, leading to a loss of language, leading to a loss of voice,鈥� explained Chacon, who was named last week as one of 19 MacArthur Fellows (aka 鈥済enius grant鈥�). 鈥淚 wanted to write a piece in the style of a Mass that you might hear in a service, but without liturgical text.鈥�

鈥淚t鈥檚 a piece that sends a powerful message and he doesn鈥檛 want that message diluted in any way,鈥� Holtan said.

True Concord will perform 鈥淰oiceless Mass鈥� as Chacon intended, with musicians placed around the space to create a surround sound effect, with the organ as the central voice.

鈥淭hese sounds come together in a thought-provoking, compelling way that Raven really intended,鈥� Holtan said. 鈥淵ou have to be there to really experience it and feel its power.鈥�

True Concord鈥檚 performance of 鈥淰oiceless Mass鈥� is the work鈥檚 Southwest premiere.