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2 unusual facts about Gustav Holst


Culture of Somerset

Somerset songs were collected by Cecil Sharp and incorporated into a number of works including Holst's A Somerset Rhapsody.

Jelly d'Arányi

Gustav Holst's Double Concerto for Two Violins was written for Jelly and Adila.


1942: A Love Story

The music in the introduction of the film is from Gustav Holst's 'The Planets - Mars the bringer'

2ZY

This enabled 2ZY to start a variety of regular live music broadcasts and this meant that a number of works by British composers, were given their first radio airing by the 2ZY Orchestra, including Elgar's Enigma Variations, Holst's The Planets and Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius.

Adila Fachiri

On 3 April 1930, she and her sister gave the first performance of the Concerto for Two Violins of Gustav Holst, at a Royal Philharmonic concert at the Queen's Hall, under the direction of Oskar Fried.

Canterbury Festival

Guest artists during his time included John Mansfield, Gustav Holst, Dorothy L. Sayers, and T. S. Eliot (whose 1935 drama Murder in the Cathedral was commissioned by Bell for the festival).

Cecil Coles

Cortege also appears on Artists Rifles, an audiobook CD issued in 2004 featuring war poetry read by Siegfried Sassoon, Edmund Blunden, Robert Graves, David Jones, Edgell Rickword and Lawrence Binyon, as well as music by Edward Elgar, George Butterworth, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Maurice Ravel, Gustav Holst, Ivor Gurney, Ernest Moeran and Arthur Bliss.

Douglas Moore

His chosen style was what some regard as "typically American" i.e. based on American folk music, though Moore never actually used any authentic folk tunes but rather created his own (much like Gustav Holst or Falla).

English Musical Renaissance

Mackenzie became principal of the Royal Academy of Music; and at the Royal College of Music, Parry succeeded George Grove as director, and Stanford was professor of composition, with pupils including Arthur Bliss, Frank Bridge, Herbert Howells, Gustav Holst, John Ireland and Ralph Vaughan Williams.

Ernest MacMillan

In 1942, MacMillan conducted the Toronto Symphony Orchestra (TSO) in a recording of the orchestral suite The Planets, by Gustav Holst, recorded on 78 RPM phonograph records, for RCA Victor.

Helena Symphony Orchestra

In 2006 was a performance of famous movie themes, and in 2008 was the playing of Gustav Holst's The Planets narrated by Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin, and ending with a fireworks finale to "Star Wars Theme".

In the Wake of Poseidon

The longest track on the album is a chaotic instrumental piece called "The Devil’s Triangle", which was built around quotations from Gustav Holst's "Mars: Bringer of War" from his The Planets Suite.

Klaus Simon

He is especially interested in twentieth century music, and, as accompanist, he initiated and let a series of lieder recitals, featuring music by such composers as Schoenberg, Pfitzner, Korngold, Rihm, Hindemith, Bridge, Holst, Rebecca Clarke, Crumb and Argento.

Live-Loud-Alive: Loudness in Tokyo

The opening theme is taken from "The Planets" by Gustav Holst, performed by the Orchestre National de l'Opera de Montecarlo, conducted by Antonio de Almeida.

Matthew, Mark, Luke and John

It has been the inspiration for a number of literary works by figures including Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and musical works by figures such as Gustav Holst.

Morley College Choir

Morley College Choir was founded by Gustav Holst, during the period he was teaching music at Morley College.

Nova Solis

All tracks composed by Morgan Fisher (music) and Tim Staffell (lyrics), apart from "Alone" (music and lyrics by Staffell); "Nova Solis" - a side-length suite - includes "Jupiter" (excerpt; by Gustav Holst) and "May I Remember" and "Earth" (music and lyrics by Staffell) by Staffell's earlier band, Smile.

Pan's Anniversary

More notably, an April 1905 production at Stratford-upon-Avon, part of a Shakespeare Birthday Celebration, featured incidental music composed by Gustav Holst and Ralph Vaughan Williams.

Philip Napier Miles

They include autograph scores, printed works, and correspondence (e.g. with Falla), as well as signed copies of works by Holst, Vaughan Williams, Grainger and John Stainer.

The Divine Wings of Tragedy

The title track, "The Divine Wings of Tragedy," contains excerpts from Johann Sebastian Bach's Mass in B Minor and Gustav Holst's The Planets.


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H. Balfour Gardiner

He financed these concerts himself; he continued to be notably generous with his personal fortune, paying for a private benefit performance of The Planets for Gustav Holst in 1918, and purchasing Frederick Delius's house at Grez-sur-Loing to enable him to continue living in it at the end of his life.