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...Why Holst House is named after composer Gustav Holst, who lived there in the early 1900s....
...It is said that the composer Gustav Holst, a local resident, was inspired to write his Hammersmith Prelude and Scherzo while sipping drinks here in the interwar years....
...It was at the hall that Imogen Holst, the only child of composer Gustav Holst, organised the wartime Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts — a forerunner to Arts Council England....
...Look at the major works dating from 1914 to 1918 — Elgar’s magical Starlight Express, Bax’s Tintagel, Vaughan Williams’s The Lark Ascending and Holst’s showpiece The Planets — and the mindset is entirely...
...… Where ‘The Planets’ was born One wonders if pupils at St Paul’s Girls School realised how lucky they were to be taught by Gustav Holst....
...Igor Stravinsky, how he had noticed a bulge emerging in Charles Ives’s neck when the senior American composer played his fiercely difficult Concord Sonata....
...At Thatcher’s request, the funeral was framed by British music, with pieces by Vaughan Williams, Parry, Elgar and Holst at the beginning and end of the service....
...“Personent hodie”), Sullivan (“It Came Upon a Midnight Clear”) and Charles Wood (“Past Three O’clock”)....
...One has to be practical, says Sir Charles Mackerras, relaxing into an armchair after an arduous session recording Mozart symphonies. Practical?...
...befriended by Charles Ives, intelligent enough to have won the respect of Igor Stravinsky, sufficiently heavyweight to attract champions of the calibre of Daniel Barenboim, Pierre Boulez and James Levine...
...“My mother was a pupil of Holst. She had perfect pitch and so have I. Music was in our house: it was like being able to look at something and draw it....
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