Abstract: Peter Sculthorpe’s Music for Japan was commissioned by the Australian Youth Orchestra for performance at Expo ’70 (1970) in Osaka, Japan, the first World Exposition to be held in Asia. A number of studies have been published that examine the composition’s experimental content but none to date have explored the question of how the work reinforced or otherwise the ethos of Expo ’70, or the rationale for Sculthorpe’s revision of the work around a quarter of a century later. Originally positioned as reflecting Sculthorpe’s interest in t...
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