Gustav Holst was a British composer best known for his orchestral suite ‘The Planets’. A suite is a group of individual pieces. There are seven pieces in 'The Planets' and 'Mars, the Bringer ...

Holst wrote The Planets as a suite of seven movements, each one relating to the astrological characteristics associated with the planet in question. The suite excludes Earth, beginning with Mars ...

[Kevin] is one such hacker who now has an Arduino orchestra capable of playing all seven movements of Gustav Holst’s Planets Suite. The performers are not human beings with expensive instruments ...

Conductor Thomas Adès leads a voyage through the solar system with performances on February 26 and 27, as well as March 1 ...

The organist’s job in the first movement, “Mars - the bringer ... version of “The Planets” that features keyboard throughout. Holst’s first version of his suite was scored for piano ...

And so Doherty, noting ” ‘The Planets’ put Holst on the symphonic map,” has added two of the best-known sections from the suite: “Jupiter — The Bringer of Jollity” and “Mars ...

Nigel Simeone chooses his favourite version of Holst's The Planets The ever popular Planets is a seven-movement orchestral suite by Gustav Holst, written during the First World War. Each movement ...

Cheltenham born Holst was fascinated by many things including space. His mesmerising and hugely influential seven movement ...

Holst wrote The Planets as a suite of seven movements, each one relating to the astrological characteristics associated with the planet in question. The suite excludes Earth, beginning with Mars ...