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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.
Gustav Theodore Holst (born Gustavus Theodore von Holst; 21 September 1874 – 25 May 1934) was an English composer, arranger and teacher. Best known for his orchestral suite The Planets, he composed many other works across a range of genres, although
Vaughan Williams himself composed an alternative tune to the words, Abinger, which was included in the enlarged edition of Songs of Praise but is very rarely used. [ 7 ] Holst's daughter Imogen recorded that, at "the time when he was asked to set these words to music, Holst was so over-worked and over-weary that he felt relieved to discover ...
"The Planets" 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.
In 2012, the Philharmonia Orchestra commissioned British composer Joby Talbot to write an ending movement to The Planets as part of their “Universe of Sound” project. Talbot called the piece “Worlds, Stars, Systems, Infinity”, and like Colin Matthew’s Pluto movement, this piece emerges from Neptune without a break, coming out of the ...
The Manse in Thaxted, where Gustav Holst lived from 1917 to 1925 "Thaxted" is a hymn tune by the English composer Gustav Holst, based on the stately theme from the middle section of the Jupiter movement of his orchestral suite The Planets and named after Thaxted, the English village where he lived much of his life.
It is composed mainly of small Solar System bodies, although the largest few are probably large enough to be dwarf planets. [198] There are estimated to be over 100,000 Kuiper belt objects with a diameter greater than 50 km (30 mi), but the total mass of the Kuiper belt is thought to be only a tenth or even a hundredth the mass of Earth. [ 39 ]
A spiral graphic made by climate scientist Zeke Hausfather unfurls like a flower, its colors moving from blue to red. It may look beautiful but it reveals is just how unusually hot our planet is ...