American Indian flutes, percussion and storytelling combined in amiable work that highlighted the weekend concerts
The past year in music has been good for Indigenous American composers. In 2022, Raven Chacon won the Pulitzer Prize in Music, a first for an American Indian, and last fall San Diego Opera premiered Gabriela Lena Frank’s “El último sueño de Frida y Diego.”
Unlike the composers above who could be labeled classical musicians, Littlebird crossed over from folk and country music. “When Echoes Speak” reflects this in its comfortable populism. It was fashioned as a vehicle for Littlebird’s flute playing and storytelling, with composer Max Wolpert as his collaborator.The piece began with flutes, piccolo, and percussionists gently improvising over a drone in the low strings.
When the climax finally came, the music spilled over into a grand, sweeping melody with full orchestration, which sounded like a routine Western film score for a majestic scene on Indian territory. Aaron Copland’s “Four Dance Episodes from ‘Rodeo’” was a populist counterbalance ending the second half of the program. It was given an enthusiastic performance that at times became unruly.
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