FILMUSIK: MISSILE TO THE MOON

Filmusik presents a blend of serious new music and serious space exploitation cinema, premiering a live original soundtrack to the 1958 sci-fi classic Missile to the Moon.  Winner of the 2008 John Kenneth Cole prize for his first symphony, Ordway’s latest work, Piano Quintet #2 takes a new look at film music and the intensity of live performance.  The Classical Revolution PDX Piano Quintet performs in the pit under the glow of the big screen alongside a team of voice actors from the Willamette Radio Workshop dubbing the film live.

In Missile to the Moon an unlikely crew of rebels and stowaways journey to the moon to find it populated by an alien race of space divas and monsters that defy our descriptive powers.  The heroes must fight their way back to their ship against lunar beasts and alien mind-control. Filmusik matches Ordway’s epic soundtrack to this drive-in gem of the 1950’s in a unique performance of irrepressable imagination.

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COMPOSER: SCOTT J. ORDWAY

Scott J. Ordway (b. 1984, Santa Cruz, CA) is a composer, conductor, and writer. He is Associate Conductor of the Juventas New Music Ensemble in Boston, MA and conductor of the Filmusik Orchestra in Portland, OR. From 2007–2008 he was music director of the Eugene Contemporary Chamber Ensemble in Eugene, OR and is a regular contributing writer for the online journal, ArtsEditor.com.

Mr Ordway is the author of two symphonies, the first of which was the winner of the 2008 John Kenneth Cole Composition Prize, as well as numerous works for solo instruments, voices, and chamber ensembles; he is a published James Joyce scholar, and has been featured as both composer and conductor on public radio in the United States and Europe. A distinguished alumnus of both the University of Puget Sound (BA) and the University of Oregon (MM) where he studied with Robert Kyr, David Crumb, and Robert Hutchinson. He also holds a Certificate of Merit from the Accademia Chigiana in Siena, Italy, where he studied with Azio Corghi. The recipient of grants and awards from the American Composer’s Forum, the American Music Center, the Oregon Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra, the University of Puget Sound, and the University of Oregon, Mr Ordway presently resides in Boston, MA.