In the Beginning: A Native American Legend from the Tlingit Tribe of the Northwest Coast

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Out of the Alaskan coastal wilderness, Raven creates the earth.  He then tricks Ganook by stealing all the water from Ganook’s Magic Spring and flies through the sky, scattering water to create all the rivers of the land.  This is also the story of how the Raven’s feathers came to be black.  In this setting for narrator and orchestra, the text is spoken in-between the following sections of music:  The Soft Darkness, Raven Arrives, The Ghosts, The Fish, Calypso I, The Magic Spring, Raven’s Waltz, Storytelling by the Fire, Bossa Nova, Storytelling, Calypso II, Raven’s Escape, The Wobbly Flight, The Creation of the Rivers, The Endless Night.  Children participated in ArtStart activities before the concert, making puppets and rain sticks.  Two larger than life puppets, Ganook and Raven, enacted the story.