A Christmas concert
... Holst’s well-known carol, which begins In the bleak midwinter, first appeared in 1905 (H73 no.1); its text is taken from a posthumously published collection of poems by Christina Rossetti (1830-94), The Poetical Works of Christina Georgina Rossetti (1904). Gustav Theodore Holst (1874-1934) was an En ...
... Holst’s well-known carol, which begins In the bleak midwinter, first appeared in 1905 (H73 no.1); its text is taken from a posthumously published collection of poems by Christina Rossetti (1830-94), The Poetical Works of Christina Georgina Rossetti (1904). Gustav Theodore Holst (1874-1934) was an En ...
Gustav Holst and The Planets - Handford Hall Primary School
... Music, where he studied composition. Unfortunately, the pain in his right hand became worse. Playing for a long time was impossible and he had to accept that he would never be a professional concert pianist. ...
... Music, where he studied composition. Unfortunately, the pain in his right hand became worse. Playing for a long time was impossible and he had to accept that he would never be a professional concert pianist. ...
11. The Planets
... Scored for very large orchestra: piccolo, 4 flutes, bass flute, 3 oboes, bass oboe, English horn, 3 clarinets, bass clarinet, 3 bassoons, contrabasson 6 horns, 4 trumpets, 3 trombones, euphonium, bass tuba Percussion (2 timpanists), celesta, pipe organ, 2 harps String section Womens chorus for the f ...
... Scored for very large orchestra: piccolo, 4 flutes, bass flute, 3 oboes, bass oboe, English horn, 3 clarinets, bass clarinet, 3 bassoons, contrabasson 6 horns, 4 trumpets, 3 trombones, euphonium, bass tuba Percussion (2 timpanists), celesta, pipe organ, 2 harps String section Womens chorus for the f ...
Music and War
... wordless soprano solo accompanied by a drum roll opens the elegiac, unsettling fourth movement. Vaughan Williams was to become one of the most important English classical composers since Henry Purcell, writing nine symphonies, six operas, and a vast amount of choral and vocal music. His bleak, distu ...
... wordless soprano solo accompanied by a drum roll opens the elegiac, unsettling fourth movement. Vaughan Williams was to become one of the most important English classical composers since Henry Purcell, writing nine symphonies, six operas, and a vast amount of choral and vocal music. His bleak, distu ...
The Secret Life of Holst`s The Planets
... “We ourselves are developing to higher states and similarly have passed through great periods of a like evolution in other worlds… “The life of those standing higher in the scale of evolution affects those next below: as one advances all advance… “The planetary forces are producing a certain note, a ...
... “We ourselves are developing to higher states and similarly have passed through great periods of a like evolution in other worlds… “The life of those standing higher in the scale of evolution affects those next below: as one advances all advance… “The planetary forces are producing a certain note, a ...
WILLIMANTIC ORCHESTRA
... A Holst Christmas Gustav Holst (1874–1934) Despite his Germanic name, Gustav[us von] Holst was an English composer, born in Gloucestershire. His father, like several of his forebearers, was a professional musician and taught his son piano in hopes that he might continue the family’s musical line as ...
... A Holst Christmas Gustav Holst (1874–1934) Despite his Germanic name, Gustav[us von] Holst was an English composer, born in Gloucestershire. His father, like several of his forebearers, was a professional musician and taught his son piano in hopes that he might continue the family’s musical line as ...
British Composers and the First World War: Choral Expressions of
... Ursula Vaughan Williams and “Cheerful agnosticism” Transcendentalism and Walt Whitman Whitman’s poetry spoke to “the ability of the soul to transcend death, and it was the promise of release that would speak also to Vaughan Williams….[Whitman’s poetry] was resonant and new, free from the taint o ...
... Ursula Vaughan Williams and “Cheerful agnosticism” Transcendentalism and Walt Whitman Whitman’s poetry spoke to “the ability of the soul to transcend death, and it was the promise of release that would speak also to Vaughan Williams….[Whitman’s poetry] was resonant and new, free from the taint o ...
The Planets Gustav Holst IN SHORT
... forged with fellow student Ralph Vaughan Williams (who would be his closest lifetime colleague) and his directing of the Hammersmith Socialist Choir. This group met at Kelmscott Manor, the home of William Morris, a progressive thinker who apparently introduced Holst to ...
... forged with fellow student Ralph Vaughan Williams (who would be his closest lifetime colleague) and his directing of the Hammersmith Socialist Choir. This group met at Kelmscott Manor, the home of William Morris, a progressive thinker who apparently introduced Holst to ...
listening guide: holst`s the planets – mars, `the bringer of war`
... It’s driven by a single repeating pattern - or ostinato that dominates the entire movement. The music is scored at the less conventional 5/4 time signature - with five beats in each bar. As Westerners, we seem genetically programmed to feel four beats in a bar as more natural – so 5/4 immediately pu ...
... It’s driven by a single repeating pattern - or ostinato that dominates the entire movement. The music is scored at the less conventional 5/4 time signature - with five beats in each bar. As Westerners, we seem genetically programmed to feel four beats in a bar as more natural – so 5/4 immediately pu ...
Holst is often cited as a one-hit wonder being
... Holst is often cited as a one-hit wonder being famous for The Planets, but he was a prolific composer and wrote some 200 pieces for a great variety of forces. The very great majority of string players will know his St Paul's suite well and some choirs will have had the pleasure of performing the Hym ...
... Holst is often cited as a one-hit wonder being famous for The Planets, but he was a prolific composer and wrote some 200 pieces for a great variety of forces. The very great majority of string players will know his St Paul's suite well and some choirs will have had the pleasure of performing the Hym ...
Gustav Holst, born in Cheltenham, England, was both a composer
... violins in the piece, Jupiter, to represent this characteristic. The beginning and ending sections of Jupiter are driven by Holst’s study of English folk dances. As the piece progresses and the violins play, it is almost as if there is a spirit of celebration. Hence, the full title of the movement J ...
... violins in the piece, Jupiter, to represent this characteristic. The beginning and ending sections of Jupiter are driven by Holst’s study of English folk dances. As the piece progresses and the violins play, it is almost as if there is a spirit of celebration. Hence, the full title of the movement J ...