Orchestral Works - Eagle's Children (2000)

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instrumentation singers and chamber orchestrapremierePremiered August 2000
Dean Lesher Civic Auditorium, Walnut Creek, California
Yerba Buena Center for the Performing Arts, San Francisco, California
duration15 minutes
movements1. Visitation
2. Meditation
3. Invocation
commission detailsCommissioned by Moving Arts Dance Collective
Choreographed by Anandha Ray and Charles Anderson
lyrics

...by Fred Jack Miles Manitoumawhingon

Gitchi whingezee giya, shawandasee,
Oseemaw, sho way nay may shin, noosa.
Nin eniwek ningoosa okezhanown nenowin mujay powguck.

Translation:
Great Eagle, South Wind,
Pity me, I am poor of mind, father.
I am very much afraid; help to drive away evil spirits in our travels.

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