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Colin Matthews' Pluto, the Renewer at University of Denver

Oct. 06, 2009

Lawrence Golan conducts the University of Denver's Lamont Symphony Orchestra in a performance of Colin Matthews' Pluto, the Renewer at Gates Concert Hall at the University of Denver on October 22. Composed by Matthews for Kent Nagano, Pluto, the Renewer is both a response and an addition to Gustav Holst's famous suite, The Planets. Matthews writes:

The only possible way to carry on from where Neptune leaves off is not to make a break at all, and so Pluto begins before Neptune has quite faded. And it is very fast - faster even than Mercury: solar winds were my starting point. The movement soon took on an identity of its own, following a path which I seemed to be simply allowing to proceed as it would: in the process I came perhaps closer to Holst than I had expected, although at no point did I think to write pastiche. At the end the music disappears, almost as if Neptune had been quietly continuing in the background.

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Colin Matthews
Pluto, the Renewer (2000)
for orchestra
pic.2.afl.2.ca.bass oboe.3.bcl.3.cbsn-6.4.3.tnr tuba.tuba-2timp-4perc-strings
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