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The suite has been adapted for numerous instruments and instrumental combinations, including organ, synthesiser, brass band, and jazz orchestra. [75] Holst used the melody of the central section of "Jupiter" for a setting ("Thaxted") of the hymn "I Vow to Thee, My Country" in 1921. [n 5]
Keith Emerson Band used "Jupiter, the Bringer of Joy" for their song "Marche Train". Manfred Mann's Earth Band used "Jupiter, bringer of joy" for his song "Joybringer". [22] The 1985 album Beyond the Planets, by Jeff Wayne, Rick Wakeman and Kevin Peek (with narration by Patrick Allen), is a rock arrangement of the entire suite. [23]
Holst was born in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, the elder of the two children of Adolph von Holst, a professional musician, and his wife, Clara Cox, née Lediard. She was of mostly British descent, [n 1] daughter of a respected Cirencester solicitor; [2] the Holst side of the family was of mixed Swedish, Latvian and German ancestry, with at least one professional musician in each of the ...
original for military band; orchestral version (1931) premiered at the same 1931 concert as William Walton's Belshazzar's Feast: Orchestral: 185: 1932: Jazz-Band Piece (Mr. Shilkret's Maggot) for orchestra: revised by Imogen Holst as "Capriccio" (1967) Orchestral: 190: 1933: Brook Green Suite
Not a complete set yet, but I am working on it. The Planets is considered Holst's best work, although I like First/Second Suite better. Regardless, the USAF band does a phenomenal job performing these pieces. Nominate and support. --haha169 06:05, 17 March 2011 (UTC) support you beat me to the punch. I was going to nominate these soon.
Cultural Council picks: 'King Lear' at Shakespeare by the Sea festival; Jupiter lighthouse guided tour, 'Big Band Hits from the Golden Age' in Boca
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The poem circulated privately for a few years until it was set to music by Holst, to a tune he adapted from his Jupiter to fit the poem's words. It was performed as a unison song with orchestra in the early 1920s, and it was finally published as a hymn in 1925/6 in the Songs of Praise hymnal (no. 188).