PLUTO COMPOSER DISAPPOINTED BY PLANETARY VOTE
British composer COLIN MATTHEWS is heartbroken after discovering astronomers stripped Pluto of its planetary status last week (ends27AUG06).
Matthews released his PLUTO composition in 2000 as an addition to GUSTAV HOLST’s 1917 seven-part ensemble THE PLANETS - which paid homage to Earth’s seven neighbours. Pluto was not discovered until 1926.
Matthews, who learned of the news at Rome, Italy, airport, says, "A certain amount of disappointment, as when I left to go on holiday the news had been quite the opposite.
"In my original program note I wrote, ‘The matter of Pluto’s status as a planet has for some time been in doubt - it may well be reclassified… as no more than an asteroid.’" Pluto was reclassified as a "dwarf planet" last Thursday (24AUG06) by The International Astronomical Union (IAU) at a meeting in Prague, Czech Republic.
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