Choral Music by Scott Ordway
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The Outer Edge of Youth (2020)
Choral opera in two acts; libretto by Scott Ordway
Commissioned by The Thirteen
Soprano solo, alto solo, SATB, 3 cellos, double bass (82’)
You Are My Brother (2019)
SATB + optional piano (5’). Commissioned by The Thirteen.
Text by Scott Ordway, after the Book of Genesis. This work imagines the love that must have existed between Cain and Abel in the earliest years of their lives.
North Woods (2014)
SSAA (13’). Commissioned by the Lorelei Ensemble.
Text by Scott Ordway, after Tacitus
Twenty / Twenty (2020)
SATB (7’). Commissioned by Haverford, Swarthmore, Bryn Mawr, and Hamilton Colleges.
Crowd-sourced texts from 100 university students describing the early months of the pandemic, edited by Scott Ordway.
Three Kalevala Songs (2014)
SATB (7’). Commissioned by Oratorio Chorale.
Texts compiled and adapted by Scott Ordway from Finnish creation myths.
Baltic Trees (2018)
SSAA or SATB (5’). Commissioned by the New Hampshire All State Choir.
Music adapted from the polyphonic “sutartines” tradition of northeastern Lithuania. Texts compiled and adapted by Scott Ordway from Lithuanian folk poetry on the mystical properties of trees.
Dona Nobis Pacem (2010)
SSAA (5’)