Gustav Holst’s The Planets is one of the most beloved pieces of classical music. The Houston Symphony teamed up with NASA planetary scientists and filmmaker Duncan Copp to create a live performance of ...

The entire conception of Gustav Holst's suite "The Planets" is astrological not astronomical. In about 1913 the brother of English composer Arnold Bax, Clifford Bax, introduced Holst to astrology. It ...

Professor Brian Cox discusses the planets inspiring Gustav Holst's 'The Planets'. When Gustav Holst released The Planets in 1916, most scientists had very little real understanding of the physical ...

Well, that was frustrating. It was good to see a full and enthusiastic audience for the Dallas Symphony Orchestra’s Thursday night concert. But in Gustav Holst’s The Planets, the experience was ...

Seattle Symphony music director Ludovic Morlot took his first trip into outer space just a year ago — at the Sydney Opera House. That’s where he guest-conducted the Sydney Symphony Orchestra in a ...

Spring is a season for colors and thanks to the Hartford Symphony Orchestra some of them were audible. The HSO continued its 2016-2017 Masterworks Series in the Belding Theater, at The Bushnell Friday ...

“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 ...

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 ...