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Holst and tune
Holst himself adapted the theme from " Jupiter " as a hymn tune under the name of " Thaxted ", specifically for the words " I Vow to Thee My Country ".
) His daughter Imogen later recalled of " I Vow to Thee " that " At the time when he was asked to set these words to music, Holst was so over-worked and over-weary that he felt relieved to discover they ' fitted ' the tune from Jupiter ".
As a hymn tune it has the title Thaxted, after the town in Essex where Holst lived for many years, and it has also been used for other hymns, such as " O God beyond all praising ".
Holst's daughter Imogen, recorded that " At the time when he was asked to set these words to music, Holst was so over-worked and over-weary that he felt relieved to discover they ' fitted ' the tune from Jupiter ".

Holst and make
To make these translations from Sanskrit to English, Holst enrolled at University College London ( UCL ) to study the language as a ' non-matriculated ' student.

Holst and which
While at the Royal College of Music, Holst fell in love with the music of Wagner, which he was able to hear at Covent Garden.
Holst also wrote an orchestral Walt Whitman Overture in 1899, which was given a world premiere recording by the Munich Symphony Orchestra, as well as a recording by the London Philharmonic Orchestra.
Holst became an occasional organist and choir master at Thaxted Parish Church and began an annual music festival at Whitsuntide in 1916, at which students from Morley College and St Paul's School performed.
Towards the end of his life, Holst wrote Choral Fantasia ( 1930 ), and he was commissioned by the BBC to write a piece for military band ; the resulting Hammersmith was a tribute to the place where he had spent most of his life, a musical expression of the London borough ( of Hammersmith ), which begins with an attempt to recreate the haunting sound of the River Thames sleepily flowing its way.
Interested as ever in new media, Holst wrote a score for the Associated Sound Film Industries picture ' The Bells ' in which Holst believed he appeared as an extra in a crowd scene.
Holst had a lifetime of poor health, which worsened due to a concussion during a backward fall from the conductor's podium in 1923, from which he never fully recovered.
In 2007, BBC Radio 4 produced a radio play by Martyn Wade called The Bringer of Peace, which is an intimate biographical portrait of Holst.
The Planets as a work in progress was originally scored for a piano duet, except for " Neptune ", which was scored for a single organ, as Holst believed that the sound of the piano was too percussive for a world as mysterious and distant as Neptune.
Holst stipulates that the women's choruses are " to be placed in an adjoining room, the door of which is to be left open until the last bar of the piece, when it is to be slowly and silently closed ", and that the final bar ( scored for choruses alone ) is " to be repeated until the sound is lost in the distance ".
In 2000, the Hallé Orchestra commissioned the English composer Colin Matthews, an authority on Holst, to write a new eighth movement, which he called " Pluto, the Renewer ".
This arrangement was issued on their second LP, In the Wake of Poseidon, although for copyright reasons it was renamed " The Devil's Triangle " and Robert Fripp claimed authorship, with Holst receiving no composer credit. A third progressive-rock band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, performed an arrangement of " Jupiter " with lyrics which they entitled " Joybringer ". Black Metal / Viking Metal band Bathory arranged a section of " Jupiter " as the melody of the song " Hammerheart ", from the album Twilight of the Gods.
Marion Mahony recommended to von Holst that he hire Griffin to develop a landscape plan for the area surrounding the three houses on Milliken Place for which Wright had been hired in Decatur, Illinois.
Gustav Holst and Ninette de Valois lived in houses on this stretch, both of which have corresponding blue plaques.
While it is true that Tippett's music is not as obviously ' English ' in style as composers of the so-called ' English pastoral school ' - Vaughan Williams, Holst and Delius, and later Howells and Finzi-there is an underlying thread of nature mysticism running through it which is as English as William Blake, Samuel Palmer or John Keats.
Other famous examples of early 20th century suites are The Planets by Gustav Holst, a ' Suite for Orchestra ' in which each piece represents the astrological significance of one of the seven uninhabited planets then known, as well as his First Suite in E-flat and Second Suite in F for Military Band.
In the 1930s, the company presented standard repertoire works including operas by Mozart, Verdi, Wagner and Puccini, lighter works by Balfe, Donizetti, Offenbach and Johann Strauss, some novelties, among which were operas by Holst, Ethel Smyth and Charles Villiers Stanford, and an unusual attempt at staging an oratorio, Mendelssohn's Elijah.
* Gustav Holst: Second Suite in F for Military Band, which includes a movement titled " Song of the Blacksmith "
The revival was part of a wider national movement in the period around the First World War, and contributed to the creation of a " national " or " pastoral " school of classical music which incorporated traditional songs or motifs, as can be seen in the compositions of Percy Grainger ( 1882 – 1961 ), Ralph Vaughan Williams ( 1872 – 1951 ), George Butterworth ( 1885 – 1916 ), Gustav Holst ( 1874 – 1934 ) and Frederick Delius ( 1862 – 1934 ).
Nola Jones conducted the Regional Honor Band, which prepared ( but may not have publicly performed all of ) some works by Joseph Olivadoti, Jacob de Haan, Jan Van der Roost, Gustav Holst, Fred M Hubbell, and Thomas S Allen.
Stylistically his music was significantly different from the mainstream English school of the middle 20th century ; instead of following in the lyrical, folk-song influenced tradition of Holst, Vaughan Williams and others, he wrote music which was chromatic, contrapuntal, and acerbic — more akin to Schoenberg, Bartók, and Hindemith than to any of his English contemporaries.
* In the early 1970s, Granada Television produced a half-hour documentary in its " Parade " art series entitled Egdon Heath in which an actor portraying Gustav Holst walks across the barren heath while the music from his tone poem Egdon Heath is playing, and sees scenes and characters from novel which inspired the music.

Holst and was
Gustav Theodore Holst ( born Gustavus Theodore von Holst, 21 September 187425 May 1934 ) was an English composer.
He was the brother of Hollywood actor Ernest Cossart and father of the composer and conductor Imogen Holst, who wrote a biography of him in 1938.
Holst was born on 21 September 1874, at 4, Pittville Terrace ( named today Clarence Road ) Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England.
Holst's great-grandfather, Matthias von Holst, was of Nordic origin, and came to England in 1802 from Riga, Latvia.
Holst's father, Adolph von Holst, was organist and choirmaster at All Saints ' Church in Pittville.
Holst's mother, Clara Cox von Holst ( née Lediard ), who died in 1882, was a singer and pianist who bore two sons, Gustav and Emil Gottfried ( who later became Ernest Cossart, a film actor in Hollywood ).
Holst was christened Gustavus Theodore von Holst, after his grandfather and his great-uncle Theodor, a painter.
Vaughan Williams's own music was in general quite different from Holst ’ s, but he praised Holst's work abundantly and the two men developed a shared interest in exploring and maintaining the English vocal and choral tradition as found primarily in folk song, madrigals and church music.
In 1905, Holst was appointed Director of Music at St Paul's Girls ' School in Hammersmith, London.
Holst was an avid rambler.
After the lukewarm reception of his choral work The Cloud Messenger in 1912, Holst was again off travelling, financing a trip to Spain with fellow composers Balfour Gardiner and brothers Clifford and Arnold Bax with funds from an anonymous donation.
Despite being shy, Holst was fascinated by people and society, and had always believed that the best way to learn about a city was to get lost in it.
It was in Spain that Clifford Bax introduced Holst to astrology, a hobby that was to inspire the later Planets suite.
( According to the documentary by Tony Palmer In the Bleak Midwinter, Holst hated this association because the text was the opposite of what he believed.
At the onset of World War I, Holst tried to enlist but was rejected because of his bad eyes, bad lungs and bad digestion.
Holst became something of " an anomaly, a famous English composer ", and was busy with conducting, lecturing and teaching obligations.
By this time, Holst was going out of fashion, and the piece was poorly reviewed ( although this may have as much to do with the austere nature of the work ).

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