The Planets
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The Planets, Op. 32, is a seven-movement orchestral suite by the English composer Gustav Holst, written between 1914 and 1917. In the last movement the orchestra is joined by a wordless female chorus.
Holst's copy of the first edition
Holst c. 1921
Adrian Boult, "who first caused the Planets to shine in public"
The planet
I Vow to Thee, My Country
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"I Vow to Thee, My Country" is a British patriotic hymn, created in 1921 when Gustav Holst set words written earlier by Cecil Spring Rice. The music originated as a wordless melody, which Holst later
The Planets
…a broad tune embodying those traits. In the view of Imogen Holst, it has been compromised by its later use as the melody for a solemn patriotic hymn, "I Vow to Thee, My Country"; the musicologist Lewis Foreman comments that the composer did not think of it in those terms, as shown by his own recordings of the movement. The…
Sir Cecil Spring Rice
"I Vow to Thee, My Country" is popularly sung at Remembrance Day services