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 Native American Journeys
Symphony magazine, May/June 2009
The Phoenix Symphony Releases Enemy Slayer: A Navajo Oratorio CD
EVLiving.com, Feb. 2009
 Celebrating Navajo Stories
Denver Post, July 2008
"It celebrates Navajo stories," said Navajo poet Laura Tohe, who wrote the work's libretto. "It celebrates the oral traditions that are still alive and are still strong and that still sustain. And I think this oratorio does that in a contemporary way."
"The way it works with indigenous storytelling and connects with a Western musical art form, it created something very beautiful, something very powerful and something that spoke to a large audience."
The Mother of Enemy Slayer
Paste magazine, July 2, 2008
"Enemy Slayer: A Navajo Oratorio—a 70-minute classical work—premiered in February with the Phoenix Symphony. Its first performance prompted a 10-minute standing ovation and sent some from the hall weeping into handkerchiefs."
Navajo oratorio updates creation tale
The Arizona Republic, February 2008
Mark Grey's cutting-edge classical work Enemy Slayer explores a Navajo creation story
Phoenix New Times, February 2008
A Native-Inspired Symphony in Phoenix (pdf)
Native Peoples
Healing Words: Musical statement on the human cost of war fuses Indigenous themes with classical forms (pdf)
Arizona State University newsletter, Spring 2008
Non-Native Son: Composer comes home to a place he’s never been before
Phoenix New Times, February 2008
Enemy Way inspires musical collaboration
Navajo Times, October 2007
The Phoenix Symphony's Enemy Slayer brochure (pdf)
The Phoenix Symphony's Enemy Slayer blog
Colorado Music Festival's Enemy Slayer press release (pdf)
For audio clips and videos on the making of Enemy Slayer, visit the Multimedia page.
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