CHE BA KUN AH - Road of Souls. Chippewa Legend Belief. 4 day journey after death. By H. Owen Reed. WMU Perf. CHE BA KUN AH - Roads of Souls. WMU Wind Ensemble & String Quartet! H. Owen Reed, Composer. Medewiwin Medicine Myth. 4 day journey after death - Chippewa. F. W. Coggan Coreographer. Stereo from full track mono. Original cast included Bob Mieras as Spirit, Forrest Coggan as Shaman. Miller Aud. later Kalamazoo Civic Theatre - Aquinas College film & outdoor experiments w/ Gail Olsen as Spirit/Mieras as Shaman. H. Owen Reed's CHE-BA-KUN-AH Road of Souls. Very low level recording copy. MSU Wind Symphony and Okemos String Quartet at Okemos HS. Stanley deRusha, Cond. Includes spoken intro - no choreography. Coggans choreo earlier: separation from body, journey to + river crossing, arrival at Lodge of Ancestors where spirits dance (see also Chief Petosky account of his own experience), April 3, 1971
Scope and Contents
The H. Owen Reed collection contains correspondencedate books, sheet music, audio recordings and photographs. Sheet music consists of Reed's compositions including manuscripts, published versions, and transparencies used to make the published versions. Audio recordings include cassettes of performances of Reed's music by various groups. There are also cassettes of music by Reed's pupils and Michigan State University bands and groups. Also included are electronic records consisting of audio of Reed's cello recordings and other compositions. Other electronic records include PDFs of sheet music of some of Reed's compositions. The photogrpahs included two images taken at Tangelwood, Massachusets and show Reed, Aaron Copland, Leonard Bernstein, H. Owen Reed and Serge Koussevitzky. The phootograph album shows Reed and his wife Esther vacationing as well as images of Reed with his band including an image with a sign that says Owen Reed and His Band.
Dates
- Creation: April 3, 1971
Creator
- From the Collection: Reed, H. Owen, 1910-2014 (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
Extent
From the Collection: 19 Cubic Feet
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Repository Details
Part of the University Archives and Historical Collections Repository
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943 Conrad Road, Room 101
East Lansing MI 48824 US
517-355-2330
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