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The orchestra at last summer's Music Academy of the West plays "Venus," from The Planets, by Gustav Holst. Then we mark a phenomenon that last occurred on Dec. 6, 1882. The transit of Venus is when it ...

Andrew Manze and the BBC Scottish Symphony show how the British composer Gustav Holst used music to paint a picture of calm and peace in his piece Venus, from The Planets.

Holst is regarded as one of the most iconic, influential and innovative composers of the 20th Century A university honoured the 150th birthday of Gustav Holst with a planetarium experience in his ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Music Review | Houston Symphony By Anthony Tommasini The British composer Gustav Holst was an astrology buff when he composed his most famous work, ...

In this era of interplanetary probes and a seemingly endless supply of stunning images from the Hubble Space Telescope, it can be easy to forget how little we used to know about the world beyond Earth ...

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 ...

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 ...

A university honoured the 150th birthday of Gustav Holst with a planetarium experience in his hometown. The famous composer was born in Cheltenham on 21 September 1874, and is best known for his ...