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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.
Manfred Mann's Earth Band used "Jupiter, bringer of joy" for his song "Joybringer". [22] The 1985 album Beyond the Planets, by Jeff Wayne, Rick Wakeman and Kevin Peek (with narration by Patrick Allen), is a rock arrangement of the entire suite. [23] The song "Hammerheart" in Twilight of the Gods album by Bathory is based on the fourth movement ...
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 ...
During the third entry in its Masterworks series, the Des Moines Symphony will use NASA footage to accompany the 100-year-old music of Gustav Holst.
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 Planets" is a seven-movement orchestral suite ...
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.
The Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra recording of Gustav Holst's The Planets, conducted by George Hurst, was used on the soundtrack of Nicolas Roeg's film The Man Who Fell to Earth. The orchestra were featured in a short-lived series of programmes on the local commercial radio station 2CR.
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