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To conduct this performance Holst asked the almost unknown Adrian Boult, then employed by the military procuring boots for the British Army. It was widely reported.

So this was a work finding its opportunity only slowly, and the performance of separate movements was the mechanism by which it was becoming known to concert promoters and critics. It was the choral work The Hymn of Jesus which propelled Holst into the limelight when it was heard in London in March , and quickly was widely performed; it created an awareness of Holst which must have fuelled expectations of the new orchestral suite.

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Only the second complete performance of The Planets the first of the entire work in public now came in Birmingham conducted by Appleby Matthews on Sunday 10 October Over the next two or three years The Planets tended to be represented by two or three movements, though Albert Coates returned to perform it complete in November and also took it to New York.

The publication of the orchestral full score late in , in a limited edition of copies, was another stimulus to its wider dissemination.

Holst did not conduct it at a Promenade Concert until , but by the mid s The Planets was well-established and increasingly heard. The manuscript of The Planets is headed simply: Apart from the works of Debussy, Ravel and Stravinsky already referred to, one of the most notable London orchestral premieres before August was of the Five Orchestral Pieces of Schoenberg, first performed on 3 September conducted by Sir Henry Wood, and repeated in January under the baton of Schoenberg himself.

He was the one significant Austro-German composer who may well have influenced Holst in producing an orchestral work on such a scale. This has not been fully explored, yet its influence must have been enormous.

Before the First World War the planet Pluto was yet to be discovered. However, Holst does not present the inner planets in planetary order, which is of course: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars.

But it was far from being a reaction to the outbreak of war, for Holst had completed his sketch by July, before war had been declared. Thus the manuscript is in a variety of hands which his daughter Imogen, in the published facsimile, was largely able to identify. How far should we take the astrological significance of The Planets and what it meant to Holst?

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On the one hand, astrology is reported as being a short-lived interest as far as Holst was concerned, which began to wane once his orchestral suite had left him. Perhaps of most interest is the realization that the possible astrological background to the music was not followed up by any commentator at the time. In fact, it may well be that too close an interest in any detailed astrological significance of the work would have prejudiced the success of the music, astrology perhaps generally being viewed as suspect.

Alan Leo was the pseudonym of Frederick William Allan, who produced a string of popular books and pamphlets promoting astrology in the years before and during the First World War. Yet even though for many years there would undoubtedly have been a stiffening of backs in the audience when it arrived, this tune must in many ways have contributed to the enormous success of the suite as a whole.

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There is another clue, for the music is recast from a choral setting Holst had made not long before under the title Dirge and Hymeneal. Here he set words by Thomas Lovell Beddoes:.

Is Holst himself the Magician? This is a fascinating movement to see on the page, for its patterning in the strings and harps. Perhaps most remarkable is the halo of light Holst evokes particularly with quietly rippling harp figures, celesta and high sustained violins. This study in pianissimo textures closes with the out-of-sight vocalizing female choir slowly fading.

We may suspect that so experienced a choirmaster as Holst had no intention for them to loose pitch as they became ever quieter, and asks for them to be placed in an adjoining room, the door to be slowly and silently closed at the end. Dans son ouvrage Inland Far: Et il ne fait aucun doute que notre conversation le consterna.

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