Brockton Symphony Orchestra launches its Masterworks season in Easton with a program exploring themes of war, peace and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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