A concert of programmatic music by Holst, Saint-Saëns and Respighi opened this year's festival in style, back live (and online) after an all-online 2021.
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Music Reviews: Kansas City Symphony, ‘Holst: The Planets’ and Richmond Symphony, ‘Children of Adam’ and ‘Dona Nobis Pacem’ Inspired by Walt Whitman
Reference Recordings releases fine new renditions of Gustav Holst's 'The Planets,' Ralph Vaughan Williams' 'Dona Nobis Pacem, and Mason Bates' 'Children of Adam'.
Read More »Music Reviews: Jazz Albums from Takaaki, Jane Ira Bloom, Roy McGrath
New jazz albums with tie-ins to poetry, Puerto Rico, and Gustav Holst's 'The Planets'
Read More »Opera Review (NYC): ‘Travelers: “The Wandering Scholar” and “Savitri”‘ by Gustav Holst
A trickster theme and Holst's tricky music unite these two mini-operas, whose moods couldn't be more different.
Read More »Music Review: Paavo Jarvi – The Planets
Paavo Jarvi and The Cincinatti Symphony Orchestra have recorded an incredible version of Holst's The Planets
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