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Sadly, English, late romantic era composer, trombone player and music educator Gustav Holst (September 21, 1874- May 29, 1934)🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 came to resent the popularity of “The Planets” b/c he felt that it left his other works to be overlooked. This meant that when Pluto was discovered in 1930 he declined to compose a new section for the new planet.
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And now here’s The National Youth Orchestra under the direction of Edward Garner with Gustav Holst’s “The Planets” ( https://youtu.be/MgIOBa4vK2E?is=f8-eJS0kk8h2XyYT) at The 2016 Proms
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First up a little about Gustav Holt’s “The Planets” featuring The Houston Symphony and Houston’s legacy of Space exploration ( https://youtu.be/0dJC1ff3aTo?is=C3pjX68L6-jVY0mJ)
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The Planets, Op.32: VII. Neptune, The Mystic 🧝🏽
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFMXNUHuWug

On 25 May 1934: #GustavHolst, English composer (The Planets; Ode to Death), died at 59.
#RIP 🪽🥀

Kuva vielä itse salistakin. On tämä hieno. #Lahti #Sibeliustalo #musiikki #GustavHolst #Planeetat

Täällä tänään. #Piippuhylly'llä tietty kuten aidot musiikin ystävät, joilla ei ole varaa maksaa itseään orkesterinjohtajan pallin viereen. #Lahti #Sibeliustalo #musiikki #GustavHolst #Planeetat

The Planets, Op.32: IV. Jupiter, The Bringer Of Jollity 🌍
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gu77Vtja30c

Joululahjaksi saadut #Lippupiste'en lahjakortit on sitten saatu käytettyä loppuun: ostin lipun (1 kpl, ei seuraa 😢) Lahden sinfoniaorkesterin konserttiin , jossa soitetaan #GustavHolst'in #Planeetat. Konsertti sattuu juuri lomaviikkoni alle torstaiksi 21.5.: yksi työpäivä jäljellä ennen lomaa, mukava pehmeä lasku. #miehenelämää #musiikki

The Planets, Op.32: IV. Jupiter, The Bringer Of Jollity 🌎
#GustavHolst
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5W-o5Y_GunU

The Planets, Op.32: VII. Neptune, The Mystic 🪐
#GustavHolst
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qb2QrsN9UYo

The Planets, Op.32: IV. Jupiter, The Bringer Of Jollity 🌍
#GustavHolst
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUM_zT3YKHs

In the Bleak Midwinter

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A quotation from Gustav Holst

Never compose anything unless the not composing of it becomes a positive nuisance to you.

Gustav Holst (1874-1934) English composer, arranger and teacher
Letter (1921) to William Gillies Whitaker

More info about this quote: wist.info/holst-gustav/79200/

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#OnThisDay in 1874, #GustavHolst, English composer (Planets), born in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England (d. 1934).
#HappyBirthday #RIP 🪦

John Challenger🇬🇧 is a pianist, composer and Organ scholar. He is the long serving Organist and Assistant Director of Music at Salisbury Cathedral. He is also the arranger of this all Organ version of Gustav Holst’s “The Planets”, which can be listened to here (https://theplanets.hearnow.com) and watched here (https://youtu.be/cb2ID-2JFUE?si=7IMnO6Okpvp_L78Z)
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Gustav Holst (September 21, 1874- May 29, 1934)🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 was an English, late romantic era composer, trombone player and music educator. He’s considered a pioneer in music education at schools for girls and women, which was what he spent most of his teaching career doing.
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Musical Interlude: Listened to an old favorite today, Holst's "The Planets." A fun work, based on astrology, not astronomy, but fun with its musical variations. (Holst himself came to resent it, as it was eclipsing his other works.) This piece is a favorite of mine; it perfectly reflects a D&D character I used to play, a bumbling, self-important warlock named Nox.

"Uranus, the Magician," composed by Gustav Holst, performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Susanna Mälkki.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUyVFKA1MaU

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This version of “In the Bleak Midwinter” (https://youtu.be/UfsbnewzIVE?si=gsZgdoEBSFdDoScU) was composed as a hymn by Gustav Holst 🇬🇧 and is arranged by super cool, virtuoso cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason🇬🇧 (performing here with his also super cool, also super talented older sister Isata Kanneh-Mason)
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While “In the Bleak Midwinter” is about the nativity, it’s setting is in the winter which doesn’t line up with the generally accepted time of Christ’s birth (springtime. Also, it rarely snows in Palestine, even less so in the spring??) and some have theorized that the use of “winter” is a metaphor but.. who knows what Rossetti was thinking
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“In the Bleak Midwinter” is an 1872 poem by English Pre-Raphaelite poet Christina Rossetti (December 5, 1830 – December 29, 1894), who’s is mostly known for her devotional and children’s poetry.
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The Planets – Out of Darkness | Salisbury Cathedral Organ [4K]
https://youtube.com/watch?v=cb2ID-2JFUE&si=Fm-pR_qn5mebDhJY
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BBC Proms 2024 • Sakari Oramo conducting • Holst's The Planets
https://youtube.com/watch?v=A0twkDMv3sk&si=VHfb3kPdZFlFcFN9
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Composer Colin Matthews also has a take on “Pluto” to finish out Holst’s “The Planets” called “Pluto the Renewer” that can be heard here (https://youtu.be/s5p3ZTAxgms?si=ExnjiZxhbwogpBFS)
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And now a fun little experiment from Leonard Bernstein from his CBS series “Young People’s Concerts” from Carnegie Hall (https://youtu.be/R7xlK5d7Kig?si=ox_ehKKAi2Vbca2r)
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If this sounds a little RVW-y in parts it’s likely because Ralph Vaughan Williams and Gustav Holst were besties who influenced each other. Here’s a really cool 2017 BBC documentary about their friendship and their works (https://youtu.be/azkV3iZJzFQ?si=hH4DbIbY_azGJwdW) A book about their friendship featuring their letters “Heirs and Rebels” can be read for free here (https://archive.org/details/heirsrebelslette0000gust)
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There are multiple English Heritage site blue plaques dedicated to important locations in Holst’s life like at St Paul's Girls' School in London where he wrote “The Planets” over the course of a few years while teaching/living there.
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Holst was an avid naturalist and after being introduced to the concept in the early 1910s: an astrologer. “The Planets” is based on his interest in horoscopes and astrology and likely the 1912 book “How to judge a nativity, Part II: The Art of Synthesis” by famed astrologer Alan Leo which can be read for free here (https://archive.org/details/artofsynthesis00leoa/mode/2up)
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