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In an early sketch for the suite Holst listed Mercury as "no. 1", which Greene suggests raises the possibility that the composer's first idea was simply to depict the planets in the obvious order, from nearest the sun to the farthest. "However, opening with the more disturbing character of Mars allows a more dramatic and compelling working out of the musical material".[12]

were suggested by the astrological significance of the planets. There is no programme music in them, neither have they any connection with the deities of classical mythology bearing the same names. If any guide to the music is required, the subtitle to each piece will be found sufficient, especially if it be used in a broad sense. For instance, Jupiter brings jollity in the ordinary sense, and also the more ceremonial type of rejoicing associated with religions or national festivities. Saturn brings not only physical decay, but also a vision of fulfillment. Mercury is the symbol of the mind.

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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 been sampled, stolen and cherished by the likes of Frank Zappa, John Williams, Hans Zimmer and any number of prog-rock and metal bands.

First, someone who knows the music: Sakari Oramo, chief conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, opened this summer's Proms Festival, London's biggest classical music event, with The Planets. "The work has always exhilarated me," Oramo says. "Each of the planets has a different style of orchestration and that's why it stays interesting all the time for the ear."

Next, someone who knows the real planets. Heidi Hammel is a planetary astronomer who specializes in the outer planets, and the executive vice president of AURA, the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy.

Holst, however, was no astronomer. He was more of an astrologer; his inspiration came from the personalities of the planets. He gave each of them nicknames (not related to their Roman counterparts) like "Mars: The Bringer of War" where we begin our planetary trek. Oramo says Holst un-holsters the big guns in his explosive first movement.

And now we approach the outer planets, with "Saturn: The Bringer of Old Age," where time ticks away like an old clock. Flutes rock back and forth while Holst gives a glacially paced theme to the double basses.

"We have the capability now to build the tools that can look at planets around other stars and tell us if there are signs of life there," Hammel notes. "We just have to choose to do it. Whether we will or not is something that's above my pay grade."

An inspiration for sci-fi movies across generations, Holst's The Planets is an outer space adventure representing the known planets that could be seen from Earth at the time. But did you know the music isn't based on the planets but on each planet's astrological persona? Let's take a quick orbit around the seven movements.

As the round-faced, cheery uncle of all the planets, Jupiter has a dance-like element to it. The bouncy brass and woodwinds, along with string waltzes, are met with a contrasting middle section that is broad, majestic, and patriotic quality. This is likely why Holst set the middle section tune to words over two decades after completing the suite, now virtually a second national anthem in England. The opening jolly feel returns and finishes out the movement.

It's a big piece; after all, there are an lot of planets to cover, and each planet has a whole piece of its own. And so, correspondingly, Holst uses a big orchestra, a very big one, in fact, as befits so large a subject as the solar system.

So out went Earth as a planet. It's not very scientific but Holst couldn't have cared less about the scientific side of the planets, he was drawn to the mystic side of things, and for him the planets were important as symbols, in relation to the zodiac, to horoscopes, to the ancient sort-of-science known as astrology. I suppose today he would be called a mysticism-freak. One of his pet hobbies was drawing up horoscopes for his friends, not so much to predict the future, as to try and get a fuller idea of their character and personality. And this is just what Holst did with his planets. He would pick on one aspect, or personality, of each planet, and write music about it.

The work is based on astrological signs, which fascinated Holst, and not on the astronomical planets, which explains why Earth does not appear. Although Pluto was discovered and named a planet in 1930, and the composer lived until 1934, he had absolutely no interest in adding a movement. The piece had become so popular that it overshadowed his other music, and Gustav Holst was frankly tired of hearing The Planets.

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The English composer Gustav Holst was born in Cheltenham on 21 September 1874. His father Adolph von Holst was an excellent pianist and organist, and he was musically active in his local community. He married his piano student Clara Lediard, who was also a talented singer. The couple had two children, Gustav and his younger brother Emil. Emil became a minor Hollywood film actor under the name Ernest Cossart, and Gustav rose to become a most prominent 20th-century English composer. Much of his reputation rests on the immense popularity of his orchestral work The Planets. This attempt to musically describe the character of the celestial planets made Holst immortal.

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In The Planets, Tudor composed the parts (Venus, Mars, Neptune and later, Mercury), not only to reflect the music, but also to create the atmosphere and lyrical movement that reflected different planets' meanings. The moods of each section of the music were strongly contrasted, and Tudor matched them by adopting different choreographic styles. ff782bc1db