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 ...

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 ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Music Review | Houston Symphony By Anthony Tommasini The British composer Gustav Holst was an astrology buff when he composed his most famous work, ...

Surveying composer Gustav Holst’s choral works at 150 years since his birth, David Wordsworth looks at the composer’s interest in world music, poetry and his friendship with Vaughan Williams The ...

Gloucestershire is a county that resounds to music composed by some of the finest composers. Ralph Vaughan Williams, born in Down Ampney, whose long life encompassed some of the best known tunes. Then ...

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 ...

100 years after Gustav Holst’s The Planets was premiered, we hear the work performed on the very Broadwood piano it was written on. On 15 November 1919, three movements of Holst’s The Planets were ...

Bruno Lima is "a great cheerleader" for Gustav Holst and the composer's international fanbase A student from Brazil who is studying Gustav Holst says visiting his birthplace will allow him to "be ...

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 ...

He sounds a bit like a Swiss watchmaker but Gustavus Theodore von Holst was assuredly English, born the eldest of two in the Regency spa town of Cheltenham, albeit of Swedish parentage. His father, ...

Over a century ago, Holst became proficient in Sanskrit and absorbed himself, almost to the point of obsession, in ancient Vedic philosophy. One outcome was the chamber opera Sāvitri, and now, argues ...