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- Stuart Greenbaum
Upon the Dark Water (1991)
(for Vocal Sextet or Choir SSATBB)- Wise Music G. Schirmer Australia Pty Ltd (World)
Programme Note
This set of three pieces was commissioned and premiered by The Song Company with assistance from the music Board of The Australia Council. It is dedicated to Roland Peelman, conductor of the premiere and first recording. The piece has also enjoyed performances in the UK (Arcadian Singers) and the US (Cantori New York).
1. This public figure
2. Upon the dark water
3. A cicada in the blackbird's beak
Scores
Reviews
"Equally convincing was Stuart Greenbaum's Upon the Dark Water. This work was highly evocative in its use of bi–tonality to set up what Greenbaum describes as 'floating sonorities'.”
"Stuart Greenbaum's Upon The Dark Water contained original choral sonorities"
"Upon The Dark Water by Stuart Greenbaum had much to commend it, as a piece and as a performance. The young Australian composer makes accomplished use of controlled crescendi and diminuendi on close, gently dissonant harmony and draws little agitated solos out from this texture. I look forward to Greenbaum's next piece."
"Upon The Dark Water by Stuart Greenbaum with subtle allusive texts by Ross Baglin (receiving a first performance) exploited a personal harmonic idiom. There were passages of simple but effective inventiveness such as some effectively handled sliding sustained tones."
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