Gustav Holst's orchestral suite The Planets was a formative experience of musical fusion for me. It showed me at an early age that the largely abstract classical music I'd grown up with could be ...

“The enormity of the universe revealed by science cannot readily be grasped by the human brain, but the music of ‘The Planets’ enables the mind to acquire some comprehension of the vastness of space ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Gustav Holst composed “The Planets” with crucial help from others. Firsthand accounts and the score reflect how collaborative its creation was. The New York Philharmonic, ...