The Rotation of the Earth (2017)
(for String Orchestra)

"The concert also included two sonic 'palate cleansers'. The first was Melbourne composer Stuart Greenbaum's The Rotation of the Earth. A pleasant and effective 'feel-good' curtain-raiser. It was written in 2017 for the ACO Collective (the Australian Chamber Orchestra's mentoring the regional touring ensemble) for their Hush Foudation 'Collective Wisdom Album'.

"Melbourne composer Stuart Greenbaum's 2017 work The Rotation of the Earth provided an appealing, upbeat curtain-raiser, its rustic rhythms and modal flavour suggestingh echoes of Aaron Copland."

"Accompanied by spectacular, mainly Tasmanian, scenic imagery on two large screen, this enterprisinggly chosen World Environment Day concert with the Hobart Chamber Orchestra began with Stuart Greenbaum's 'The Rotation or the Earth'(2017). Upbeat and cleverly suggestive of a circular movement, the music had an attractive and consistent momentum, making it a perfect start to the program."

"Stuart Greenbaum's "The Rotation of the Earth" sounded like a cross between baroque and children's music. It had a quintessential Australian sound as can be heard in the likes of a Peter Sculthorpe work. Its relative conjunct rhythms bounced along like a chilfdren's song sung out by the strings and the leading cello."

"The oeuvre of Stuart Greenbaum frequently concerns the cosmos and in The Rotation of the Earth it is our world that he describes. Constant momentum in the music expresses the daily circle by which we syncronise our lives. The composer writes that "each new day brings something new, and this piece is written in the spirit of finding anything good, beautiful, joyous and worthy along the way". He deftly conveys that optimistic mood".

"I was fortunate to attend the world premiere concert in Sydney. Stuart Greenbaum's The Rotation of the Earth opened the program. This was a buoant, cheerful and frolicking cyclic orbit featuring the rich velvet tones of the cellos. Then the music glided into a sweeping circular expression of joy and promise."