One hundred years ago, a symphonic blockbuster was born in London. The Planets, by Gustav Holst, premiered on this date in 1918. The seven-movement suite, depicting planets from our solar system, has ...

“The enormity of the universe revealed by science cannot readily be grasped by the human brain, but the music of ‘The Planets’ enables the mind to acquire some comprehension of the vastness of space ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Gustav Holst composed “The Planets” with crucial help from others. Firsthand accounts and the score reflect how collaborative its creation was. The New York Philharmonic, ...

100 years after Gustav Holst’s The Planets was premiered, we hear the work performed on the very Broadwood piano it was written on. On 15 November 1919, three movements of Holst’s The Planets were ...

The Colorado Symphony is set to illuminate Boettcher Concert Hall this weekend for a three-night performance of Gustav Holst’s existentially gripping masterpiece, The Planets, with principal conductor ...

Gustav Holst’s most famous and beloved work, The Planets, is a musical exploration of the planets that make up our solar system. The great English composer assigned characters and a subtitle to each ...

A host of new and archive programmes to mark the 50th anniversary of the moon landings.

Seattle Symphony music director Ludovic Morlot took his first trip into outer space just a year ago — at the Sydney Opera House. That’s where he guest-conducted the Sydney Symphony Orchestra in a ...

When I texted my trombone-major boyfriend to ask if he wanted to go see the Seattle Symphony perform Gustav Holst’s The Planets: An HD Odyssey with me this weekend, I received this enthusiastic, if ...

In an out-of-this-world performance event, Conductor Peter Bay leads The Conspirare Symphonic Women's Orchestra as they bring Debussy's Nocturnes and Holst's The Planets to beautiful life with ...

‘The Planets,” the 2018 work which propelled English composer Gustav Holst to “rock star” status, has been a powerful influence on music of all genres ever since — and film composer John Williams in ...

The composer, born 150 years ago this month, should be better known for his many other great works. By Simon Heffer Fate cruelly labels some great artists as one-hit wonders. Some believe Orson Welles ...