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Program note: Vincent Plush's "Pacifica"

  • by Martin Buzacot
  • Source: Published by Symphony Services
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Vincent Plush (born 1950)
Pacifica

I a. Voyage 1: Before the Wind
b. Chorale: 'Veni Imperator'
II a. Mexico: Terremoto
b. Peru: Danza
c. Chile: 'Song of the Innocents'
III a. Becalmed: 'Veni Sancte Spiritus'
b. Voyage 2: Astride the Wind

The scene is the Brown Hotel in Louisville, Kentucky. The year is 1986, and the great composer György Ligeti is visiting the city to be presented with the world's richest composition prize, the Grawemeyer Award. As the legendary Hungarian composer steps out of a lift at the gracious old Southern hotel he comes face-to-face with Adelaide-born expatriate Australian composer Vincent Plush.


The two men are introduced and Ligeti instantly recognises the then-36-year-old Plush as the composer of the recent orchestral work Pacifica, commissioned by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation to commemorate ...

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