Scott Ordway (http://www.scottordway.com): "Litany of the Birds" from The Outer Edge of Youth (2020) Digital Collaboration from May 2020. View the printed pr...
“Litany of the Birds”
from The Outer Edge of Youth
choral opera in two acts / 90 minutes
Commissioned by The Thirteen (Washington, D.C.)
World Premiere May 1, 2020—postponed due to covid-19
Interior No. 1 "we are all made of time" by Scott Ordway Julia Dawson - Voice Guillaume Faraut - Violin Scott Ordway - Piano Recorded at Home Mixed by Alexan...
Interior No. 1 “we are all made of time”
voice, violin, piano / 1 minute
Julia Dawson, voice (Canada)
Guillaume Faraut, violin (France)
Released May 15, 2020
Music Composition: Scott Ordway
Audio Engineer: Alexander Brusencev
Video Editor: Alexander Brusencev
Interior No. 2 “the water drawn from wells”
cello, piano / 6 minutes
Sébastien Hurtaud, cello (France)
Released July 8, 2020
Music Composition: Scott Ordway
Audio Engineer: Alexander Brusencev
Video Editor: Alexander Brusencev
Interior No. 3 “after us, the birds will sing”
violins, piano, birds / 6 minutes
Elly Toyoda, violin (Japan)
Released August 7, 2020
Composed and Directed by Scott Ordway
Field recording and videography: Elly Toyoda, Scott Ordway
Audio Engineer: Alexander Brusencev
In August 2020, 100 singers from four college choirs each wrote one line of text: "One year ago today, I did not know..." At the same time, each of those sin...
Twenty / Twenty
mixed choir and digital video / 6 minutes
Commissioned by Haverford, Swarthmore, Bryn Mawr, and Hamilton Colleges
Released December 11, 2020
Composed and directed by Scott Ordway
Audio Engineer: Alexander Brusencev
Music Direction: Charlotte Botha, Joseph Gregorio, Nathan Zullinger
Editorial Assistance: Kimberlee Sibilia, Mateo Urgilés
Text, videography, and music performance: 100 co-authors