Gustav Holst was a British composer best known for his orchestral suite ‘The Planets’. A suite is a group of individual ...

Why: Holst (1874–1934) composed “The Planets” to convey the identifying qualities and emotional impacts attributed to each. Earth has no such identifying astrology. Thus, although “The Planets” is ...

The Sydney Symphony Orchestra premiered Lucas van Woerkum’s Symphonic Cinema: The Planets, combining Holst’s orchestral suite with a live-synchronised silent film starring Emma Thompson and Greg Wise.

The Sydney Symphony Orchestra’s world premiere of Lucas van Woerkum’s *Loss* combined Gustav Holst’s *The Planets* with a silent film starring Emma Thompson and Greg Wise. Reviews praised the ...

Experience "Reaching for the Stars" at Worcester Cathedral on 29 May during the Elgar Festival 2024, featuring Holst, Elgar, ...

The Sydney Symphony Orchestra premiered Lucas van Woerkum’s film ‘Loss’ alongside Holst’s The Planets, starring Emma Thompson and Greg Wise. Reviews differed: some highlighted the unified emotional ...

A new silent film starring Emma Thompson and Greg Wise will accompany the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and Holst’s The Planets ...

The Sydney Symphony Orchestra has premiered Symphonic Cinema: The Planets, a world-first fusion of Holst’s orchestral suite with a silent film starring Emma Thompson and Greg Wise. Directed by Lucas ...