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 ...
Holst was a good enough trombonist to have played in the Queen's Hall Orchestra under Richard Strauss. Because of this understanding of brass instruments and a keenness to write music with a social ...
Suite de ballet Gustav Holst, Composer Nicholas Braithwaite, Conductor London Philharmonic Orchestra Suite No. 1 London Philharmonic Orchestra Nicholas Braithwaite, Conductor Gustav Holst, Composer (A ...
Not long before his sudden death in 2008, Richard Hickox had begun a survey of Holst's orchestral music for Chandos. One disc, containing all Holst's ballet scores, was subsequently released. Now it ...
The Hart House Orchestra presents its FREE fall concert on Thursday, November 13th at 8 pm. They will be performing Gustav Holst's The Planets suite (featuring the Hart House Singers Women's Chorus), ...
It's easy enough to assume that an aspiring composer tackling his first orchestral work in 1899 at the age of 25 is bound to have been influenced by Wagner. So the sleeve notes to this collection of ...
Morning Edition's series One-Hit Wonders / Second-Best Songs focuses on musicians or bands whose careers are defined by a single monster hit, and explains why their catalogs have much more to offer.