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Gustav Holst composed “The Planets” with crucial help from others. Firsthand accounts and the score reflect how collaborative its creation was.

Patrons at next weekend’s QC Symphony Orchestra Masterworks concerts will be in for a rare treat. For just the second time in the past 13 years, a spectacular film from the science and arts group KV 265 will be shown accompanying a live performance, this time to the 10-minute “Liquify” by Michael Abels, which was […]

This year is the 150th anniversary of the birth of Gustav Holst. “Ah, yes,” I can hear some of you say, “The Planets”. I have long regarded that work of genius as Holst’s misfortune. Some composers write one piece so amazing that they are known for nothing else: think of Mascagni’s Cavalleria rusticana, or Widor’s Toccata. One of the two sad aspects to Holst is that to aficionados The Planets is not necessarily his finest piece of music. He wrote many other works that reflect his genius, express

In his sweeping solos, Wyatt Underhill, an acting associate concertmaster, managed to turn his violin into an oboe, the oboe into a gong, then back into a violin solely through the specificity of his fingers. 

Promising to be the “ultimate fusion of science and sound,” Glacier Symphony Orchestra and Chorale presents The Planets and Outer Space Film Experience event this weekend.