Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Benjamin Britten and Imogen Holst - George C. Beresford/Hulton Archive/Getty Images/Alex Bender/Denis de Marney Back in 2013, ...

I’m midway through exploring a cycle of symphonies by Heinz Winbeck, a German contemporary composer very much in the Bruckner tradition. I’ll report back next week, but, as a stopgap, here’s an ...

Savitri was given a rare outing in a concert that framed Holst’s Indian opera with works by Grace Williams and Britten, and closed with a boundary-crossing fusion that Holst would have relished Gustav ...

Surprising musical effects are often achieved with relatively simple means. Holst's Hymn of Jesus contains several striking moments. Such as the bold modulation during the full chorus's “Glory to Thee ...

The charms of Donizetti’s comic opera continue to elude, while a Holst rarity shines in an elegant fusion of music and movement Any sentient person watching Donizetti’s Don Pasquale today is caught in ...

“I need to play the notes in such a way that we can recreate the feelings of the listeners which Beethoven would have wanted to invoke in his audience, rather than playing it exactly how we wanted it ...

A few words of advice to choirs hiring churches for concerts might be given after the Holst Singers’ ‘Muscular to Mystical’ on Thursday evening: choose the church (and its organ) to suit the ...

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 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 ...

We know Holst as a master composer of "The Planets," but did you know he was also Master of the Music Room at St. Paul's Girls' School of London? Here's the main building where Holst would have taught ...

He may not have been a born Englishman, but when the chips were down, George Frideric Handel knew where his duty lay. With the Hanoverian throne threatened by the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745–6, he ...