Previous posts for September 21st are here: Gustav Holst; Billy Porter (2019), Leonard Cohen (2020), and Gustav Holst (2021)
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Gustav Holst (21 September 1874 – 25 May 1934) was an English composer, arranger and teacher.
Heavenly Holst
Imogen Holst, the composer's daughter, wrote that her father had difficulty with large-scale orchestral structures such as symphonies, and the idea of a suite with a separate character for each movement was an inspiration to him. – Wikipedia, s.v. “The Planets”
When discomfort with abstract autonomy
Led Holst to the cosmic taxonomy
Which he used in his suite,
He employed the conceit
Of the planets from ancient astronomy.
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