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 ...
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS — WHEN THE BROOKLYN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA PLANNED ITS IMMERSIVE PERFORMANCE OF composer Gustav Holst’s “The Planets,” the mysterious cosmos also arranged a great alignment of the heavenly ...
The Planets, by Gustav Holst, premiered on this date in 1918. The seven-movement suite, depicting planets from our solar system, has been sampled, stolen and cherished by the likes of Frank Zappa, ...