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The Naxos recording of Grey's Enemy Slayer: A Navajo Oratorio is available now. Recording is of the world premiere performance featuring The Phoenix Symphony conducted by Michael Christie, the Phoenix Symphony Chorus and baritone Scott Hendricks.
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"Musically, 'Enemy Slayer' is stunning. It moves from breathtakingly beautiful and lush passages to sections that are stringently dissonant, and finally ends peacefully and simply. Yet everything is cohesive and quite seamless. It is a hypnotic work that makes quite an impression on the listener."
~Review of Salt Lake City Choral Artists and Orchestra performance on May 2, 2009, Deseret News
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Mark Grey premiered two works as The Phoenix Symphony's Composer-in-Residence (07-08 season):The Summons and Enemy Slayer: A Navajo Oratorio, the first-ever oratorio based on an indigenous creation story. "Mark Grey's score is perfectly crafted, impeccably paced, beautifully scored." ~The Arizona Republic
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Evoking the past pioneers of electronic music, musique concrete, and music of the avant-garde, Grey created a dramatic new sonic score and design for Peter Sellars' markedly innovative production of Shakespeare's Othello, starring Philip Seymour Hoffman (Iago) and John Ortiz (Othello). His all-electronic "symphonie mecanique" score for Othello uses an elaborate surround-sound environment to transport theatre audiences through colorful and complex sonic worlds into the haunting world of Shakespeare's timeless tale of jealousy and betrayal. The work premiered at the Wiener Festwochen (Vienna, Austria) in June 2009, then proceeded to the K15 Festival in Bochum, Germany. Othello was also staged from Sept. 12-Oct. 4, 2009, at the Public Theater in New York City.
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