It is a peculiar coincidence that Gustav Holst completed the first sketch of Mars, the Bringer of War—his most bellicose piece of music—just before WWI began. Like his good friend Ralph Vaughan ...

The Tri-County Symphonic Band is set to pay tribute to English composer Gustav Holst at its upcoming concert.

Some composers are fated to be known by just one piece. Gustav Holst is one. His Planets suite is one of the great orchestral hits, endlessly pillaged for film and advertising soundtracks. And yet The ...

These are just some of the fascinating facts to have surfaced after the discovery of an unfinished film about the life of the famous composer. The footage, originally filmed in the late 1970s, has ...

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 ...

“If nobody likes your work, you have to go on for the sake of the work. And you’re in no danger of letting the public make you repeat yourself.” So said one of Britain’s most daringly inventive ...

As well as creating some of the 20th century's most rousing classical compositions, Gustav Holst was also a influential figure in creating an 'orgy of song' in the Essex village of Thaxted. Gustav ...

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.

“East is East and West is West.” Rudyard Kipling’s grimly dogmatic line was certainly true in music, for centuries. Classical music was Western through and through, its grammar too tightly organised ...