“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 ...

There aren't so many recordings of Gustav Holst's songs that a collection like this, first released in the English song series on the now defunct Collins Classics label, could be allowed to languish ...

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 ...

The Bangalore Men – an all-male voices ensemble- led by Jonas Olsson, voice faculty at Bangalore School of Music will present choral hymns, set by British composer Gustav Holst's (1874-1934) ‘Sanskrit ...

We often think of composers as solitary geniuses, scribbling away at their masterpieces, working alone. But this isn’t always the case. Gustav Holst, most famous for composing The Planets, struggled ...

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 ...

You are in: Essex > Made In England > Thaxted sings Thaxted Thaxted Primary School meet a dragon! The people of Thaxted came out in their hundreds to celebrate St. George's Day by singing Gustav Holst ...

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