Two wildly different musical mediums serve as a metaphor for a collision of historical perspectives in Anthem of the Ancestors, a unique musical work composed for string quartet and Native American flute. The program narrates the history of North America’s first people from a personal Native American perspective. The new composition is the work of Littlebird and violinist Chas Wetherbee. Native American storyteller and vocalist Breana McCullough narrates the piece in her native language, that of the indigenous Karuk people of California.