Coming up on November 9 is an out-of-this-world adventure at Bellingham Symphony Orchestra. The star attraction? Gustav Holst’s The Planets, Op. 32.

One hundred years ago, a symphonic blockbuster was born in London. The Planets, by Gustav Holst, premiered on this date in 1918. The seven-movement suite, depicting planets from our solar system, has ...

‘The Planets,” the 2018 work which propelled English composer Gustav Holst to “rock star” status, has been a powerful influence on music of all genres ever since — and film composer John Williams in ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. On Saturday, May 30, 2020, the Brevard Symphony Orchestra's (BSO) "virtual" ...

“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 ...

Our solar system is the subject of composer Gustav Holst's The Planets, which premiered 100 years ago on Sept. 29, 1918. To mark the anniversary, we've enlisted two experts to guide us on an ...

Gustav Holst's Planets don't exactly line up like the real ones — he skips Earth and Pluto, which wouldn't be discovered until a dozen years after The Planets premiered. So after "Mercury" we skip on ...