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 ...

Guest conductor Edward Gardner led the orchestra in a colorful reading of Holst's masterpiece and Randall Goosby performed Bruch's Violin Concerto No. 1.

The English composer's supernova hit continues to obscure his jaunty, folk inflected St. Paul's Suite. In The Shadow Of 'The Planets' Lies Gustav Holst's Sweet Little Suite Morning Edition's series ...

The nature writer has collaborated with musicians Delia Stevens and Will Pound on a reimagining of Holst’s ‘The Planets’ ...

Gustav Holst evokes the astrological character of the planets in his popular symphonic suite. John Eliot Gardiner tops the list of conductors who... Gustav Holst's Peerless 'Planets' Gustav Holst's ...

Co-hosts Michael Stern and Dan Margolies celebrate the birthdays of composers Dmitri Shostakovich and Gustav Holst. We'll hear violinist Mayu Kishima bring warmth to Shostakovich's searing A minor ...

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 ...

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 ...

My sister plays upright bass (double-bass, contra bass, what have you) in the Big Island's philharmonic orchestra. This past weekend they put on Holst's Planets with an 83-piece orchestra. This is a ...

Morning Edition's series One-Hit Wonders / Second-Best Songs focuses on musicians or bands whose careers are defined by a single monster hit, and explains why their catalogs have much more to offer.