Tracks and Samples
1.Theater
2.Scream
3.Detective
4.Suspects
5.Costume Shop
6.Front Hall
7.Kitchen
8.Dining Room
9.Billiard Room
10.Interlude
11.Study
12.Ballroom
13.Garden
14.Reenactment

Listen:
WOSU's Erin Deignan takes a look at Bradley Sowash's original score for BalletMet's Whodunit, and how it was composed in collaboration with the ballet’s choreographer.

Bradley Sowash’s original sound score for Whodunit? mixes elements of jazz and classical traditions. In composing the ballet, he worked in close collaboration with choreographer Susan Hadley to develop authentic moods for each scene and character. To inspire musical mystery, Sowash integrated sly references to 19th century ballet music and detective movie soundtracks with his own signature style. The recording was produced from sampled instruments (flute, clarinet, muted trumpet, accordion, vibraphone, marimba, orchestra bells, piano, bass, and strings) with additional sound engineering by Tom Boyer to enhance its surreal quality.

"One more congratulations on Whodunit.  It was such fun-- full of imagination, great dancing and superb music. - Karen Bell (Dean of OSU College of the Arts)

"The Ballet was fabulous! We enjoyed the performance and found the entire idea quite clever. Each facet of the performance was wonderful - costumes, lighting, set-design; but most especially the music and choreography!" - Melanie

Postscript
WOSU-FM Radio - Arts Unscripted
“It was really fun. The choreography was very inventive. The characterizations were very funny. The score had more references than you could possibly imagine to other mystery music and TV shows. It was very, very clever. I hope they bring it back. It was fun. Absolutely.” - Barbara Zuck with Christopher Purdy

Review
Clue-like characters inhabit a fun ballet
Friday, March 09, 2007
Barbara Zuck
The Columbus Dispatch
The show is cleverly put together at almost every level and — like any good thriller — keeps its secrets until the very end. Choreography by Susan Hadley slyly dresses the Detective, the Costume Designer, the Professor, the Butler and a host of other Clue-like personages in this character-driven and amusing tale about a theft occurring in the first scene. Music by Bradley Sowash helps propel the dancing but underscores the characters and their interaction with a menage of sometimes subtle, sometimes startling references to movie and TV themes, ballet scores and various other classical works.

These two principal creators of Whodunit? have formed an unusually strong marriage of movement and music in each scene, though a few stand out. The ever-increasing tempo of the guests arriving and mingling in the Entry Hall scene, for instance, becomes almost too dizzying to watch — yet you can’t tear your eyes away. (excerpt)

Preview
WEEKENDER COVER STORY
Mystery to be solved by footwork
Original BalletMet work thrusts dancers into roles of detective-story genre
Thursday, March 08, 2007
Barbara Zuck
The Columbus Dispatch
Composer and jazz artist Bradley Sowash, wrote a new score that has references to themes from mystery movies, TV detective shows and classical ballets. "Sometimes it’s a huge lift, like The Waltz of the Flowers (from The Nutcracker) in the Garden Scene," Sowash said. "Sometimes it’s just this passing reference — 10 or 20 seconds — and sometimes I take a recognizable theme and twist it around, like The Pink Panther backward. There’s also quite a lot of original music." (excerpt)