Today, millions are hearing an ancient 3,000-year-old text within a 100-year-old classical work, from the biggest pop stars of today. Here’s what happened... Classical composer Gustav Holst has ...
‘The Planets,” the 2018 work which propelled English composer Gustav Holst to “rock star” status, has been a powerful influence on music of all genres ever since — and film composer John Williams in ...
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 Melodica Men have truly outdone themselves with this impressive rendition of ‘Jupiter’ from Holst’s The Planets. In those moments when swelling brass and slow waltzing strings are met with the ...
Surveying composer Gustav Holst’s choral works at 150 years since his birth, David Wordsworth looks at the composer’s interest in world music, poetry and his friendship with Vaughan Williams The ...
A Swede conducting an all-male Indian choir; music composed by an Englishman on the Rig Veda - a concert cannot get more global than this. Singing the Sanskrit hymns weren't difficult for Olsson.
You are in: Essex > History > Local History > Holst's village of song Holst made Thaxted his second home As well as creating some of the 20th century's most rousing classical compositions, Gustav ...
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 ...
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