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score available from Wise Music program note i. Uyuni Train Cemetery, Bolivia (abandoned, 1950’s) ii. Rusting merchant ships, The Aral Sea, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan (stranded, 1960’s) iii. Douglas Super DC–3 cargo plane, Sólheimasandur, Iceland (crashed, 1973) iv. Soviet tanks, Kabul Military Training Centre, Afghanistan (abandoned, 1989) v. Balaklava Submarine Base, Crimea, Russia (closed, 1993) This … Read more
score available from Wise Music program note i. celebrate being unique ii. daughter universe iii. space time is flat iv. eternal inflation v. universes can start repeating themselves vi. the multiverse “Is our universe unique? From science fiction to science fact, there is a concept that suggests that there could be other universes besides our … Read more
Spotify recording available Viney Grinberg Piano Duo ABC Classics, ABC 481 4591, 2016 score available from Wise Music program note i. Solar ii. The Expanding Universe iii. Earthrise This Sonata for Piano, 4 Hands presents three different solutions to the challenges of 16 fingers and 4 thumbs playing at the one keyboard. Running in parallel … Read more
Spotify recording available Return Journey Ensemble Three plays Sonatas by Stuart Greenbaum Lyrebird Productions, LB061116 ABC Classics, digital, 2018 score available from Wise Music program note This work started with a few bars first explored at my Bernstein upright piano at home in Moonee Ponds on the 2nd of January 2015. In the following week, … Read more
Spotify recording available Return Journey Ensemble Three plays Sonatas by Stuart Greenbaum Lyrebird Productions, LB061116 ABC Classics, digital, 2018 score available from Wise Music program note i. journey to Mars: 6 to 8 months interlude: the surface ii. return journey This Sonata for Trumpet and Piano is written for my colleague Joel Brennan. It is … Read more
score available from Wise Music program note i. Akiyoshido Limestone Cave, Japan, Paleozoic Age “hollowed by the work of water over immensities of time” ii. Navigating the Labyrinth, Paris Catacombs, early Middle Ages “over 600 years of quarrying…the invisible city” iii. Drilling for ice-core samples, Antarctica and Greenland, 1950’s “Ice has a memory and the … Read more
YouTube score available from Wise Music program note i. Realisation (we have to go) ii. Earth Abandoned iii. Memory of life on Earth This Sonata for Viola and Piano is written for the Australian National Academy of Music as part of the Greenbaum Sonata Project (low string sonatas). It is the 11th in a series … Read more
Spotify recordings available Mercurial Marianne Rothschild (violin), Glenn Riddle (piano) Reed Music Infinite Heartbeat Duo Sol: Miki Tsunoda (violin), Caroline Almonte (piano) ABC Classics score available from Wise Music program note This violin sonata is programmatic in a very general sense, following a journey (in four movements) into space and back to Earth. It does … Read more
score available from Wise Music program note i. bridge ii. crop circles iii. city lights This Sonata for Violin and Viola was commissioned for Music Viva Australia by Dr Victor Wayne and Dr Karen Wayne OAM. It was written for Sophie Rowell and Christopher Moore as part of the Greenbaum Sonata Project, and the premiere … Read more
YouTube score available from Wise Music program note i. our home planet ii. the human imperative for exploration iii. the outer reaches of the universe This Sonata for Oboe and Piano is the 6th in a series of Sonatas that started in 2000 with the Sonata for Violin and Piano, written for my wife Marianne … Read more