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The Planets, Op. 32, is a seven-movement orchestral suite by the English composer Gustav Holst, written between 1914 and 1917.In the last movement the orchestra is joined by a wordless female chorus.
The Simpsons episode "The Regina Monologues" features an extract from Mars in a flashback scene to World War II. [42] Mars is used as the opening and closing theme music for the 6-part 1958/1959 BBC TV science fiction serial Quatermass and the Pit. Mr. Robot features Neptune in the pre-credits sequence of season 2 episode 4. [43]
Holst was born in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, the elder of the two children of Adolph von Holst, a professional musician, and his wife, Clara Cox, née Lediard. She was of mostly British descent, [n 1] daughter of a respected Cirencester solicitor; [2] the Holst side of the family was of mixed Swedish, Latvian and German ancestry, with at least one professional musician in each of the ...
The Planets, 2003. The Planets was a classical crossover music band formed by Mike Batt in 2001. The Planets made their public debut supporting Deep Purple's 2002 UK tour. The band was made of: [1] Ruth Miller (flute) Ben Pugsley (electric, classical and flamenco guitars; Jonathan Hill (violin) Anne-Kathrin Schirmer (guitar and clarinet) Lac ...
Mythodea — Music for the NASA Mission: 2001 Mars Odyssey is a choral symphony [1] by Greek electronic composer and artist Vangelis.It premiered as a single concert in Athens, Greece, in 1993 [2] but a recording was only released in 2001 by Vangelis' then new record label Sony Classical, which also set up the NASA connection and promoted a new concert, this time with a worldwide audience.
Masque; music for the play by Frances Ralph Gray Incidental music: 102: 27b: 1909: Stepney Children's Pageant: for orchestra: Incidental music: 102a: 27b: 1909: A Song of London: for unison chorus and piano: from the incidental music for Stepney Children's Pageant; words by G.K. Menzies Incidental music: 114: 1910: The Praise of King Olaf
In 1777, Joseph Haydn's opera "Il mondo della luna"("The world on the moon") premiered. Author and classical music critic David Hurwitz describes Joseph Haydn's choral and chamber orchestra piece, The Creation, composed in 1798, as space music, both in the sense of the sound of the music, ("a genuine piece of 'space music' featuring softly pulsating high violins and winds above low cellos and ...
This is a discography of commercial recordings of The Planets, Op. 32, an orchestral suite by Gustav Holst, composed between 1914 and 1916, and first performed by the Queen's Hall Orchestra conducted by Adrian Boult on 29 September 1918. It includes the composer's own recordings made in 1922–1923 and 1926.