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Holst's The Planets

Holst would be disappointed with us today as we play his best known work, The Planets. The composer was famously vexed that this work eclipsed all else that he did. Indeed, it set him in a rather curmudgeonly orbit; he would greet fans asking for an autograph with a typed out refusal. And when Pluto was discovered it was of no interest to Holst to revisit this set of pieces for large orchestra. Leonard Burnstein, however, was happy to write something up for the little fellow.

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