Coyote Tales - American Opera Based On Native American Themes

Henry Mollicone (Composer), Russel Patterson (Conductor), Brian Steele (Performer), Bruce Barry (Performer), David Soxman (Performer), Jane Gilbert (Performer), Julia Parks (Performer), Matt Foerschler (Performer), Michael Ballam (Performer), Michael Lanman (Performer), Suzan Hanson (Performer), Suzanne Hillis Ackin (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Brian Steele, Bruce Barry, David Soxman, Jane Gilbert, Julia Parks, et al.
• Conductor: Russel Patterson
• Composer: Henry Mollicone
• Audio CD (January 10, 2012)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Label: Newport Classic
• ASIN: B00000AFOE
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #597,893 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Act One Prologue "Old Man"

2. Coyote: "What Remarkable"

3. Coyote: "Buffalo, Antelope"

4. Voice Great Spirit: "Coyote!"

5. Humans: "We Are Cold"

6. Fox: "Not Far from This Spot"

7. Skookum 1: "Fire, Burn High"

8. Skookum 1: "Gone Is the Flame"

9. Coyote: "How Clever I Am"

10. Stars: "From Our Home"

See all 11 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. Act Two Opening: "Thief!"

2. Four Chiefs: "Far Have I Come"

3. Pavayoykyasi: "O Maiden"

4. Pavayoykyasi: "When Flowers"

5. Maiden: "The Time Passes"

6. Maiden: "Help!"

7. Coyote: "How Clever I Am"

8. Pavayoykyasi: "You Treacherous"

9. Stars: "From Our Home"

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Premiere of new American opera., February 10, 2002

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Seven Oaks Press (Saint Charles, IL USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Coyote Tales/Native American (Audio CD)

This is a production by John Ostendorf (a pretty good, opera man) of the premiere performance of a new opera from the Kansas City Lyric Opera. It claims to use a "Native American Theme" but the creators are certainly not "native Americans" nor is the music at all restricted. Henry Mollicone fortunately has created an original score without attempting to "copy" anything and librettist Sheldon Harnick is probably too old and ornery now to be anything other then original. Conductor Russell Patterson and his young singers manage to get it together remarkably well, verging sometimes almost into musical comedy.

3 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Coyote Tales, March 1, 2000

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Alex D Taylor (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Coyote Tales - American Opera Based On Native American Themes (Audio CD)

I admit I may be a bit prejudiced, as Micheal Ballam is my Music Instructor here at USU, but I really really like this music. It is unlike ANYTHING I have ever heard. The Indian, or Native American as we say, sounds mixed in with the European instruments create a most unique experience.

It just feels different and different is good.

1 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Setting of Native American stories about the Coyote, March 20, 1999

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[e-mail] (A Corunna, Spain) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Coyote Tales - American Opera Based On Native American Themes (Audio CD)

*Coyote Tales* is a multicultural opera. Coyote, creator of the world as archetypal Till Eulenspiegel, "Trickster and Hero, Lower and Clown".

The dramma is fragmented in vignettes (the various folk tales) whit musical correspondence on stylistic pluralism.