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 ...

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 ...

The youngest of Johann Sebastian Bach’s 11 sons, Johann Christian Bach was greatly admired in his day and was a big influence on the young Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. He composed operas and longer works ...

From left: Bay of Plenty Symphonia's Bronya Dean, librarian Gloria Pheasant and music director Justus Rozemond examine the score of ‘Folk Songs from Somerset.'"; English composer Gustav Holst took us ...

On Thursday night, the lobby of the Meyerson Symphony Center was unusually packed and inside the hall there were few empty seats. The draw? A program that features music by Philip Glass and Gustav ...

WELLINGTON (Reuters) - Two handwritten music manuscripts discovered in a library clearout at an amateur orchestra in New Zealand have been confirmed as the work of British composer Gustav Holst, ...

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.

While on holiday in 1913, a nearly 40-year-old English music teacher/composer picked up a book that would change his life forever. Titled What Is the Horoscope and How Is It Cast, the volume was ...

The piano which Gustav Holst used to compose his orchestral suite, The Planets, has been put up for adoption. The Holst Victorian House in Cheltenham has launched an "adopt an object" scheme to try ...

WELLINGTON (Reuters) – Two handwritten music manuscripts discovered in a library clearout at an amateur orchestra in New Zealand have been confirmed as the work of British composer Gustav Holst, ...