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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. Each movement of the suite is named after a planet of the Solar System and its supposed astrological character.
Oct. 9—The Santa Fe Symphony will bring audiences on a journey to "The Planets" on Sunday, Oct. 15, at the Lensic Performing Arts Center. The concert opens with Himari Yoshimura, the youngest ...
Five months later, when Holst was in Greece, Boult introduced The Planets to the general public, at a concert in February 1919; Holst sent him a long letter full of suggestions, [n 10] but failed to convince him that the suite should be played in full. The conductor believed that about half an hour of such radically new music was all the public ...
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 ...
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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.
“Dolly Parton’s Threads: My Songs in Symphony,” a multi-media concert experience designed to pair the country-pop superstar’s song catalog with local orchestras, has announced performances ...
Playing Stravinsky's Firebird Suite, the corps finished in fifth place in Kansas City. 1989's John Rutter program carried the corps back to third place, and the "Cavalier Anthems" took them to their first runner-up finish (behind the Cadets of Bergen County) in Buffalo in 1990, but The Cavaliers would finish the 1980s without returning to the ...