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 ...

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Left-field duo Stevens & Pound threaded funky folk stylings with poetry by Robert Macfarlane and virtuoso playing by Britten Sinfonia to create The Silent Planet, a rethinking of Holst’s Planets Suite ...

Picnics on Mars, sunsets on Uranus, sculptures on Venus … 100 years after Holst unveiled his epic masterpiece, musicians are reimagining it using the latest scientific discoveries Composers have long ...

The Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra will go beyond the bounds of Earth with its next concert — and with a little help from the stargazing community. Gustav Holst’s orchestral suite The Planets is ...

When English composer Gustav Holst wrote his seven-movement symphonic suite The Planets in 1917, he did not include Pluto (yet to be discovered) or Earth among them.