John Luther Adams: Make Prayers To The Raven: Ensemble de Chambre

John Luther Adams' Make Prayers To The Raven for Flute, Percussion, Harp, Violin and Cello.
Approx. duration: 16 minutes 30 seconds.

'This little suite is drawn fromthe score of a music-theater work for children. Movements II and IV are based on my settings of poems in the Gwich'in Athabascan dialect, written by Adeline Peter Raboff.

The title is borrowed from the book byRichard K. Nelson about the Koyukon Athabascan people and the profound connections between their cultural traditions and the land in which they live'. - John Luther Adams