We often think of composers as solitary geniuses, scribbling away at their masterpieces, working alone. But this isn’t always the case. Gustav Holst, most famous for composing The Planets, struggled ...

My sister plays upright bass (double-bass, contra bass, what have you) in the Big Island's philharmonic orchestra. This past weekend they put on Holst's Planets with an 83-piece orchestra. This is a ...

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Here & Now music opinionator Fran Hoepfner joins host Peter O'Dowd to discuss why Gustav Holst's "The Planets" is the perfect piece right now to explore places far, far away. The seven-movement ...

The English composer's supernova hit continues to obscure his jaunty, folk inflected St. Paul's Suite. In The Shadow Of 'The Planets' Lies Gustav Holst's Sweet Little Suite Morning Edition's series ...

It was good to see a full and enthusiastic audience for the Dallas Symphony Orchestra's Thursday night concert. But in Gustav Holst's The Planets, the experience was compromised by applause after ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA footage accompanies Mars: The Bringer of War from "The Planets" orchestral suite by Gustav Holst.

Conductor Elim Chan joins the San Francisco Symphony October 26–28 for performances of Gustav Holst’s The Planets at Davies Symphony Hall. Chan replaces conductor Daniel Harding, who has withdrawn ...

A red-brick home alongside London’s winding River Thames in the well-to-do West London enclave of Barnes that once belonged to the English composer and music teacher Gustav Holst has come to the ...