Beyond the Score

 Colorado Music Festival’s “Beyond the Score” explores Holst’s The Planets with Carolyn Kuan, Conductor. Join us for an enthralling exploration of this work through a stunning visual and musical presentation. After intermission, enjoy a complete performance of The Planets by the Colorado Music Festival Orchestra. Gustav Holst was a child of the late 19th-century British Empire, and his orchestral work The Planets was written during the disastrous first two years of World War I, when that empire faced its greatest threat. The music reflects the composer’s sense of longing to find values that were deeper, older and more universal. Holst is famous as a pioneer of the so-called English musical renaissance, but in this suite he looks far beyond the island of Britain and finds inspiration in the ancient cultures of Greece and India, in the myths and fancies of astrology and theosophy, and in the revolutionary musical discoveries of Debussy and Stravinsky.

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