Grey: Enemy Slayer: A Navajo Oratorio
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Composer: GreyConductor: Christie
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2009-03-31
Music Label: Naxos
Soundtracks:
- Enemy Slayer: A Navajo Oratorio: Prologue
- Enemy Slayer: A Navajo Oratorio: Scene 1
- Enemy Slayer: A Navajo Oratorio: Scene 2
- Enemy Slayer: A Navajo Oratorio: Scene 3
- Enemy Slayer: A Navajo Oratorio: Scene 4
Music reviews of Grey: Enemy Slayer: A Navajo Oratorio
Music Review: Classical And Native American Music Finally Meet
Rating: 5 Stars
Up until now, no oratorio based on a creation story has had its basis in anything but the Holy Bible. Composer Mark Grey, however, with the help of a text written by Laura Tohe, a Navajo-born professor at Arizona State University, has changed all that with his 70-minute work "Enemy Slayer: A Navajo Oratorio", a powerful choral work based on an ancient Navajo legend of two heroes who, having vanquished the monsters who threatened their people, began having nightmares similar to any veterans coming home from a long and drawn-out war. Thus, while it may be based in Navajo legend and its choral text in the Navajo language itself, its essence is universal and spiritual: that of war sucking the life and soul out of all people, in what used to be known as battle fatigue, but which is known today as post-traumatic stress disorder.
Baritone Scott Hendricks sings the solo parts of this oratorio, while the Phoenix Symphony Chorus (under the direction of choral master Gregory Gentry), and the Phoenix Symphony Orchestra, led by current music director Michael Christie, provide stirring and sterling accompaniment. Not only is it rare to have the Navajo represented even in modern classical music, it is even more rare for much in the way of any Native American music from any of our thousands of tribes represented in modern music at all, except when it is integrated into film music, like in the scores of such Native American-themed films as A MAN CALLED HORSE or GERONIMO: AN AMERICAN LEGEND. All of those involved in this recording deserve plaudits for this recording, including the composer himself; and hopefully, because of the high quality of the recording here on the low budget Naxos label, "Enemy Slayer" will find a wide audience, initiating a greater fascination with the music of a group of people we have rejected and ostracized for far too long.
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Description of Grey: Enemy Slayer: A Navajo Oratorio
The Phoenix Symphony enjoys a longhistory of premièring new works that
bridge gaps between Western art music
and Native cultures. Hailed as
'a master', Mark Grey 'is a composer as
well as a sound engineer, and what he is
up to has far-reaching implications for the
direction that classical music will take this
century' (Los Angeles Times). This
recording of Enemy Slayer: A Navajo
Oratorio is of the world première
performance of the first oratorio based on
an indigenous North American creation
story. 'Mark Grey's score is perfectly
crafted, impeccably paced, beautifully
scored' (The Arizona Republic).
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