“The enormity of the universe revealed by science cannot readily be grasped by the human brain, but the music of ‘The Planets’ enables the mind to acquire some comprehension of the vastness of space ...

Morning Edition's series One-Hit Wonders / Second-Best Songs focuses on musicians or bands whose careers are defined by a single monster hit, and explains why their catalogs have much more to offer.

Stunning HD images from decades of NASA exploration accompany Holst’s celestial orchestral suite, The Planets. Paired with a love song to the beauties of bird and sky, Vaughan Williams’ The Lark ...

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 ...

HOLST'S THE PLANETS at Tulsa Performing Arts Center next month. Performances will take place in November. Learn more here!

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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 ...

KINGSPORT, Tenn. (WJHL) – For fans of Classical music, an upcoming Symphony of the Mountains performance is one you won’t want to miss. According to a press release from the organization, the ...

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 ...

When I texted my trombone-major boyfriend to ask if he wanted to go see the Seattle Symphony perform Gustav Holst’s The Planets: An HD Odyssey with me this weekend, I received this enthusiastic, if ...