These are just some of the fascinating facts to have surfaced after the discovery of an unfinished film about the life of the famous composer. The footage, originally filmed in the late 1970s, has ...

The piano which Gustav Holst used to compose his orchestral suite, The Planets, has been put up for adoption. The Holst Victorian House in Cheltenham has launched an "adopt an object" scheme to try ...

There's no particular Gustav Holst anniversary being celebrated at the moment, so perhaps it is just the current emphasis on all things British that has encouraged EMI to bring together such a ...

From left: Bay of Plenty Symphonia's Bronya Dean, librarian Gloria Pheasant and music director Justus Rozemond examine the score of ‘Folk Songs from Somerset.'"; English composer Gustav Holst took us ...

Making a film – any film – is a journey of exploration. If you knew at the beginning what you know at the end, why bother to make the film? This is one of the reasons I am often spurned by ...

Experts believe one of the works, Folk Songs from Somerset, has not been played or heard in more than a century Two original scores from English composer Gustav Holst have been found in New Zealand, ...

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, ...

As well as creating some of the 20th century's most rousing classical compositions, Gustav Holst was also a influential figure in creating an 'orgy of song' in the Essex village of Thaxted. Gustav ...

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Some composers are fated to be known by just one piece. Gustav Holst is one. His Planets suite is one of the great orchestral hits, endlessly pillaged for film and advertising soundtracks. And yet The ...