Spirit Chief Names the Animal People: 32nd Annual Education Concert
Fri, May 01
|Streaming Free
Our 32nd Annual Education Concert, a special event for 3rd- and 4th-graders in Franklin County in partnership with local school districts, will take place early April of 2026. The concert recording will be available to the public for free in May 2026.
Time & Location
May 01, 2026, 10:00 AM
Streaming Free
About the event
The PVS Orchestra’s 32nd annual Mary Stuart Rogers Education Concert, Spirit Chief Names the Animal People, will be performed for almost one thousand 3rd & 4th graders at Greenfield High School in early April of 2026. A video of the concert will be available to stream free on our YouTube channel in May 2026.
Immerse yourself in the evocative sounds of Jerod Impichchaachaaha’ Tate’s Spirit Chief Names the Animal People—a musical journey inspired by Native American storytelling.
The Spirit Chief has decided to give the animals an opportunity to pick different names if they so choose before humans arrive on Earth.
He sets a time for the animals to all come to his lodge and stand in line and the first come first serve will pick their new names.
For the Okanagan people, the Coyote is a trickster character. And although a trickster can be very annoying and challenging they are also are an important part of life lessons.
Your Coyote is scheming to get a new, much more powerful, name with more status. He would like to be either "bear," "salmon" or "eagle" because those animals are the rulers of the land, the water, and the land. But will Coyote arrive in time to change his name?!
The piece features a narrator alongside orchestral movements representing animals (Coyote, Bear, Salmon, and Eagle).