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 ...

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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 ...

Seattle Symphony music director Ludovic Morlot took his first trip into outer space just a year ago — at the Sydney Opera House. That’s where he guest-conducted the Sydney Symphony Orchestra in a ...

There is no question that David Alan Miller, conducting the Albany Symphony Orchestra, performing “The Planets,” is the draw for this Saturday’s concert at the Palace Theatre ...

Amazing things happen when the worlds of jazz and classical music align. Think of how Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn re-invented Tchaikovsky’s “Nutcracker” Suite, its “Dance of the Sugar Plum ...

Gustav Holst's orchestral suite The Planets was a formative experience of musical fusion for me. It showed me at an early age that the largely abstract classical music I'd grown up with could be ...

Composer Gustav Holst would have been inspired by the telescopes set up in the Tucson Music Hall courtyard this week. He would have marveled, no doubt, at the various demonstrations assembled in the ...

José Francisco Salgado, astronomer and visual artist, uses a combination of photography, video and historic documents, such as drawings by Galileo, to illustrate each of the planets for the Symphony’s ...

Exclusively Sunday in the Houston Chronicle: Gustav Holst got the planets wrong when he composed his famous suite The Planets. Now the Houston Symphony has done something to fix the problem. Or at ...

Spring is a season for colors and thanks to the Hartford Symphony Orchestra some of them were audible. The HSO continued its 2016-2017 Masterworks Series in the Belding Theater, at The Bushnell Friday ...

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 ...