One movement in Carnival of the Animals, by Camille Saint-Saëns, is called “Fossils.” A xylophone sounds like dancing bones, ...

One hundred years ago, a symphonic blockbuster was born in London. The Planets, by Gustav Holst, premiered on this date in 1918. The seven-movement suite, depicting planets from our solar system, has ...

Join the SUNY Fredonia Wind Ensemble on Saturday, Feb. 28, for a performance of Gustav Holst’s “The Planets.” The concert at 8 p.m. in King Concert Hall is free and open to the public. Composed ...

My sister plays upright bass (double-bass, contra bass, what have you) in the Big Island's philharmonic orchestra. This past weekend they put on Holst's Planets with an 83-piece orchestra. This is a ...

The Sacramento Symphonic Winds will present the third concert of its 2025–26 season, “Holst: Bringer of Music,” on Sunday, ...

The Colorado Symphony is set to illuminate Boettcher Concert Hall this weekend for a three-night performance of Gustav Holst’s existentially gripping masterpiece, The Planets, with principal conductor ...

Morning Edition's series One-Hit Wonders / Second-Best Songs focuses on musicians or bands whose careers are defined by a single monster hit, and explains why their catalogs have much more to offer.

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 National Youth Brass Band, directed by conductor Mark Carter, presents its 2026 "Resonance" program. This concert ...

VIBE's August/September issue features an interview with Dr. Dre, available now in an excerpted Web preview. Atlantic tech blogger Alexis Madrigal is quick to pull out "the most exciting tidbit the ...