Gustav Holst

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The Missing Planet: Watch Leonard Bernstein Improvise 'Pluto, the Unpredictable'

Jennifer Hambrick

You could say that Pluto is the Rodney Dangerfield of planets.Downgraded from “planet” to “dwarf planet” in 2006, and with nearly 100 planets discovered…

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Classical 101 Holiday Special: An English Pastorale

What I'm calling An English Pastorale is an hour of music I've selected that I hope will suit the mood of the holiday season without sticking exclusively…

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A Century Later, Missing Manuscripts by Gustav Holst Found in New Zealand

English composer Gustav Holst took us on a musical journey across the solar system, from Mercury to Neptune, in his symphonic suite The Planets.In an…

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Leonard Bernstein First on Pluto

In a recent blog, I wrote about Colin Matthews' composition Pluto, the Renewer, which he added to Holst's The Planets in 2000. (Pluto May Be Small, but it…

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Pluto May Be Small, but It SOUNDS Big

NASA's New Horizons interplanetary probe has been much in the news recently as it approached it's rendezvous with Pluto in the outer reaches of our solar…