KATIE MELUA:His name was Gustav Holst, and as well as writing music he was a teacher in a school. KATIE MELUA:He was also interested in astrology. The idea that the different planets, up in the ...

Gustav Holst’s The Planets (1914–16 ... which could almost be a drinking song. Most absurd of all is a tune beginning low in the tubas that builds to an over-the-top gladiatorial march ...