Share the adventure and discovery of the first flute.
by Michael Brant DeMaria
Share the adventure and discovery of the first flute through this moving musical odyssey, played on indigenous flutes, keyboards and percussion.
DeMaria presents an ancient native world where a boy, Takoda, leaves his village on a journey that brings life-altering encounters with Nuka the woodpecker, the sage owl Hinhan and the great elk Hexaka. When Nuka pecks holes in the limb of a cedar tree to get to the termites, the wind blows through the holes and Takoda hears the first flute sound. He makes the tree-limb into a flute, learns to play it and takes it back to his tribe.
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Reprinted from AzNetNews, Volume 28, Number 2, April/May 2009.
April 16, 2012
Music review