A ritual for four voices.
For the last 15 yea...,, Tom Lowenstein has been visiting the Inupiaq people of Point Hope,
Alaska, recording elders who could tell of a time before outside contact undermined the ancestral beliefs that had sustained the balance of land, people and whales. In this poem, he recreates the shamanistic rituals in which the land was a whale and the hunter was a raven, enacted through the winter solstice in preparation for the spring migration of whales northwards past the inupiaq village.
With Brenda Bruce , Maurice Denham and Paul Copley. Producer Joan Griffiths