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Thanks @MatthewTitus88 for music that got me through helping to give our cats their monthly anti-Flea & tick pills… See y’all around, #ILikeToWatch friends, enjoy the rest of your Labor Day weekend💕

PS- drop by #SymSat (info⤵️) in a bit for more Labor Day music

Thanks for the great company, #IlikeToWatch pals.
Enjoy #SymSat I'm off to dreamland.

See you next time. Good night

Rest well, Dolly🕯️💕 …Thanks for tuning in! Drop by #SatMat for workplace health & safety PSAs (info➡️ https://mastodon.social/@analgesicsleep/117193209156349834) & #SymSat for Mabor Day music (info➡️ https://mastodon.social/@analgesicsleep/117193212304276915) + Join me next week when we kick off #HispanicHeritageMonth with “Ana Maria in Novela Land” (2015) & “The Three Caballeros” (1944) on #MusComEnt & #RetroView respectively. Enjoy your Labor Day weekend💕

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.
#SymSat #GustavHolst #ThePlanets

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
#SymSat #GustavHolst #ThePlanets

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)
#SymSat #GustavHolst #ThePlanets

“Les Nuits d'été (Summer Nights), Op. 7” was originally composed for a mezzo-soprano voice. You can tell that this Soprano is stretching both her range and vocal flexibility to get the lower notes but I think she’s pulling it off well.
#SymSat #HectorBerlioz

And now the 1840s song cycle “Les Nuits d'été (Summer Nights), Op. 7” (https://youtu.be/3HrRrTl88FM?is=xFiQ8BX1dwIGobz4) composed by French Romantic era composer, conductor, music educator and critic Hector Berlioz. It tells the story of a romance from infatuation to maturity.
#SymSat #HectorBerlioz

Next up we have “Conga del Fuego Nuevo” (https://youtu.be/w-qFrH2Cno8?is=Uzc6_0c1_y4eMdKi) was composed by prolific Mexican composer Arturo Márquez and is inspired by Afro-Cuban conga music. It’s rumored to be a longtime favorite of Venezuelan conductor and violinist Gustavo Dudamel
#SymSat #ArturoMarquez

And here’s the reprise of “ Mama Who Bore Me” (https://youtu.be/1Bn39ZKD6Kg?si=4jjlazBI7DjD5_oi) which features the entire female ensemble. Both versions of “Mama Who Bore Me” open the show
#SymSat #HappyMothersDay #DWSA #DeafWestSpringAwakening #DeafTalent #DuncanSheik #StevenSater #ASL

Mama Who Bore Me (https://youtu.be/7yhIxX-y6Z0?si=zBEGCVOI43axoWJp) is from Coming-of-Age Rock musical “Spring Awakening” based on the 1891 German play of the same name. It was composed by Grammy Award winning singer-songwriter Duncan Sheik (yes, the same guy who wrote “Barely Breathing” (https://youtu.be/A-oh-tP6RvA?si=DXY2BzYEHpVniluC) !) A lullaby, the music contrasts with the lyrics about a young teenager’s frustration at being unprepared for harsh realities of the world
#SymSat #HappyMothersDay #SpringAwakening #DuncanSheik #StevenSater

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)
#SymSat #JohnChallenger #GustavHolst #ThePlanets

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.
#SymSat #GustavHolst #ThePlanets

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)
#SymSat #GustavHolst #ShekuKannehMason #IsataKannehMason

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
#SymSat #ChristinaRossetti #GustavHolst #ShekuKannehMason #IsataKannehMason

“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.
#SymSat #ChristinaRossetti #GustavHolst #ShekuKannehMason #IsataKannehMason

The sets for “Appalachian Spring” were made by legendary sculptor Isamu Noguchi, who claimed that Martha Graham took him to the MOMA, pointed at a minimalist sculpture and said that’s what she wanted. I think he delivered
#SymSat #AppalachianSpring #AaronCopland #MarthaGraham #IsamuNoguchi

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)
#SymSat #GustavHolst #ThePlanets #ColinMatthews

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)
#SymSat #GustavHolst #LeonardBernstein #ThePlanets

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)
#SymSat #GustavHolst #RalphVaughanWilliams #RVW

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.
#SymSat #GustavHolst #ThePlanets

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)
#SymSat #GustavHolst #ThePlanets