When I texted my trombone-major boyfriend to ask if he wanted to go see the Seattle Symphony perform Gustav Holst’s The Planets: An HD Odyssey with me this weekend, I received this enthusiastic, if ...

While on holiday in 1913, a nearly 40-year-old English music teacher/composer picked up a book that would change his life forever. Titled What Is the Horoscope and How Is It Cast, the volume was ...

My sister plays upright bass (double-bass, contra bass, what have you) in the Big Island's philharmonic orchestra. This past weekend they put on Holst's Planets with an 83-piece orchestra. This is a ...

The Colorado Symphony is set to illuminate Boettcher Concert Hall this weekend for a three-night performance of Gustav Holst’s existentially gripping masterpiece, The Planets, with principal conductor ...

‘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 ...

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 ...

Here & Now music opinionator Fran Hoepfner joins host Peter O'Dowd to discuss why Gustav Holst's "The Planets" is the perfect piece right now to explore places far, far away. The seven-movement ...

BROOKLYN HEIGHTS — WHEN THE BROOKLYN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA PLANNED ITS IMMERSIVE PERFORMANCE OF composer Gustav Holst’s “The Planets,” the mysterious cosmos also arranged a great alignment of the heavenly ...

The four performances will take place Thursday, January 30, 2025, at 7:30 pm, at State Theatre New Jersey in New Brunswick; Friday, January 31, 2025, at 8 pm, at New Jersey Performing Arts Center ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. On Saturday, May 30, 2020, the Brevard Symphony Orchestra's (BSO) "virtual" ...

The relationship between physics and music may be seemingly nonexistent to some people. However, the unique partnership between the Department of Physics and the Department of Music for the March 4 ...

When conductor Joseph Giunta takes the stage at the Des Moines Civic Center this weekend, his baton will not only be leading the Des Moines Symphony, but bending the motion of the planets themselves.