Two Interludes in Space
for violin, vibraphone and
piano (2007)
duration: 12’
GRT • 128
audio sample
1: Alone in Space
score
available from
Australian Music
Centre
program note
These two
interludes are adapted from the middle two movements of
Sonata for Violin and Piano, written in 2000 for Melbourne
violinist, Marianne Rothschild. In 2003, Miki Tsunoda and
Caroline Almonte (Duo Sol) recorded the 3rd
movement, The
Infinite Heartbeat for CD and in 2006 they performed the 2nd
and 3rd movements at the Aurora Festival of Living Music in
Western Sydney. This trio adaptation was made specifically
for percussionist Claire Edwardes and Duo Sol to play
together on tour in 2007.
1: Alone in Space
“After eighteen days of a space mission I was convinced
that all visible space - the black emptiness, the white,
unblinking stars and planets - was lifeless. The thought
that life and humankind might be unique in the endless
universe depressed me and brought melancholy upon me, and
yet at the same time compelled me to evaluate everything
differently.” - Yuri Glazkov
2: The Infinite
Heartbeat
“What struck me most was the silence. It was a great
silence, unlike any I have encountered on Earth, so vast
and deep that I began to hear my own body: my heart
beating…” - Aleksei Leonov
review
“Another
Australian work, two atmospheric pieces for violin, piano
and percussion by Melbourne composer Stuart Greenbaum and
titled Alone in
Space and
The Infinite
Heartbeat set
quiet extended violin cantilenas over equally quiet sounds
from piano and percussion to effectively convey the
infinite stillness of space.”
W. L. Hoffman, The Canberra Times, May 2007