Mark Grey, Scott Hendricks , The Phoenix Symphony And Chorus, Michael Christie - Enemy Slayer: A Navajo Oratorio (Text By Laura Tohe) flac album

He composed a 70-minute oratorio, Enemy Slayer: A Navajo Oratorio, for baritone, chorus of 130 singers, and full orchestra, which premiered in February 2008. The story of the oratorio was based on a Navajo creation mythology story. Enemy Slayer: A Navajo Oratorio has also been performed at the Colorado Music Festival in July 2008, and in Salt Lake City in May 2009 with the Salt Lake Choral Artists. Other recent commissions include works for The Los Angeles Philharmonic's Minimalist Jukebox Festival, Kronos Quartet, Colorado Music Festival Orchestra, Leila Josefowicz, Paul Dresher Ensemble, The California EARUnit, and Joan Jeanrenaud (former Kronos Quartet cellist). The Phoenix Symphony. Scott Hendricks, baritone. Michael Christie, conductor.

Enemy Slayer: A Navajo Oratorio The Phoenix Symphony. No! - at least not when the designer in question is Mark Grey, who is now emerging as a major American composer. In the story, told in verse with urgency and economy by Laura Tohe, a Navajo poet on the faculty of Arizona State University, the monsters of native myth become the tormenting memories of death and devastation that haunt the returned soldier and prompt him to tell his story. Although Grey’s ideas for the oratorio reach back several years, the work - once defined - was quickly written. Grey met Michael Christie, now in his third year as music director of the Phoenix Symphony, in 2004 in Rotterdam, where both were involved in the staging of John Adams’ Death of Klinghofer

Scene 4. Исполнитель. Grey, . Enemy Slayer: A Navajo Oratorio. Лицензиар: NaxosofAmerica (от лица компании "Naxos").

The history of the Chicago Symphony Chorus began on September 22, 1957, when the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO) announced that Margaret Hillis would organize and train a symphony chorus. Music Director Fritz Reiner’s original intent was to utilize the Chorus for the two weeks of subscription concerts that season, performing - George Frideric Handel’s Messiah in December and Giuseppe Verdi’s Requiem in April.

Enemy Slayer is the first oratorio based on the creation story of the Navajo. The story concerns the twins Monster Slayer and Child Born for Water who (as Marley Shebala’s notes tell us) went to war against the monsters who threatened their people. After destroying all the monsters the twins returned home but started having nightmares, smelling the blood of the monsters and screaming in horror. They wanted to be alone, lost their appetites, became depressed, angry, violent, and thought of suicide. When he wrote the work Grey was composer in residence for the Phoenix Symphony and the organisation obviously wanted to give their man the best they could offer for what could possibly be his magnum opus. So what did Grey deliver?

Mark Grey: Enemy Slayer - A Navajo Oratorio. Composed By. Mark Grey. Symphony Hall, Phoenix, AZ. Track Listing. 2. Scene 1. Michael Christie. 3. Scene 2. 4. Scene 3. 5. Scene 4. blue highlight denotes track pick.