Performed by Daedalus Quartet with special guests January 13, 2017 at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology Filmed, mixed and edited by Christopher McDonald Additional cinematography by Josh Carrigan and Stacey McDonald Audio recorded by Jesse Kudler

Tonight We Tell the Secrets of the World: A Whisper Play (2016)
String ensemble, soprano voice, alto saxophone, whispered voices, lighting design
25 minutes

Commissioned by the Penn Museum of Archeology & Anthropology with support from the American Composers Forum 

Score

Tonight We Tell the Secrets of the World is a crowd-interactive “whisper play” in which members of the audience form a large choir of whispered voices, guided by a custom lighting array that is aligned with the musical score. The texts are drawn from objects in the collections of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archeology & Anthropology and span more than 5,000 years of human history in the Middle East and Mediterranean regions.

Scott Ordway: Tonight We Tell the Secrets of the World ( excerpt from m. 144 )
Daedalus String Quartet and guests
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Scott Ordway: Tonight We Tell the Secrets of the World ( complete )
Musicians from the Curtis Institute of Music
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