The Portuguese Philharmonic Orchestra is returning to Lagoa’s Carlos do Carmo Auditorium this month. The reputed ensemble is ...

Gustav Holst was a British composer best known for ... meditation and vegetarianism - in many ways he was completely ahead of his time. Music ran in Holst's family and so it wasn't a surprise ...

GREG FOOT: This music is all aboutthe planet Mars and it was composed by a mancalled Gustav Holst. FRAN SCOTT: Ah but did you know that Marswas also the Roman god of war?" "Oh that's why it makes ...

It was in 1874 when Gustav Holst was born in Cheltenham and ... a poem by Christina Rossetti in 1872 that was then set to music by Holst in The English Hymnal in 1906. READ MORE: Explosion and ...

The influence of English composer Gustav Holst on wind bands cannot ... a Theme by Thomas Tallis” — had more influence on Holst’s music than anyone else. To open the second half of the ...