Tag: Jupiter

• Under-rated heroes and forgotten wives

  

  Happy anniversary, Gustav and Isobel Holst A guest post by author Philippa Tudor Fame and fleeting, modest fortune Aspiring but not-yet-famous composer Gustav von Holst and Isobel Harrison were married on 22 June 1901. It was a quiet wedding in Fulham Register Office (a former workhouse), witnessed by Isobel’s brother and Gustav’s aunt, who had…

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  June 22, 2022

  Book reviews, book shops, Circaidy Gregory Press, Uncategorized, women

  Ann Oakley, Gustav Holst, Isobel Holst, Julian Rushton, Jupiter, Michael Short, Philippa Tudor, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Raymond Head, Tony Palmer

• Coming back to Holst

  

  I always do. In the last few years, politics and COVID and financial troubles left little time for contemplating music but sooner or later, it had to happen. I sat down and listened to Mars, and thought yes, that’s how it is, and felt better. Then I listened to Jupiter, and rallied my internal troops…

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  November 1, 2021

  Book reviews, book shops, Circaidy Gregory Press, Uncategorized

  Gustav Holst, Jupiter, Mars, Michael Short, music, The Planets