There would be no “Imperial March” from “Star Wars - The Empire Strikes Back” without “Mars” from Gustav Holst’s iconic work “The Planets.” “The Planets” has been capturing imaginations about places ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Keep an eye to the sky this week for a chance to see a planetary hangout. Five planets — Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, Uranus and Mars — will line up near the moon. The best day to catch ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The concert features Gustav Holst's celestial masterpiece The Planets and Malcolm ...

PASADENA, Calif.–The International Astronomical Union (IAU) today downgraded the status of Pluto to that of a “dwarf planet,” a designation that will also be applied to the spherical body discovered ...

Najita — a researcher at the National Science Foundation’s National Optical-Infrared Research Laboratory in Tucson, Ariz. — introduced her research by contrasting it with the classic view of planet ...

Two Arkansas orchestras (apparently independently) have hit on the idea of celebrating Monday's total eclipse of the sun and its path of totality through a wide swath of Arkansas by programming Gustav ...

The Planets is a musical gallery of the Milky Way, with each planet’s distinct character painted in full orchestral color.

My sister plays upright bass (double-bass, contra bass, what have you) in the Big Island's philharmonic orchestra. This past weekend they put on Holst's Planets with an 83-piece orchestra. This is a ...

Although I’m primarily known as a world music and jazz aficionado, I have also loved classical music for a long time. I was a teenager when I first heard Debussy’s Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun ...

Imagine predicting an entire planet's existence with nothing but math, and then finding it right where the numbers ...