{"id":3552,"date":"2024-09-21T10:13:20","date_gmt":"2024-09-21T09:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/?p=3552"},"modified":"2024-06-05T10:16:52","modified_gmt":"2024-06-05T09:16:52","slug":"150th-anniversary-of-the-birth-of-gustav-holst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/2024\/09\/21\/150th-anniversary-of-the-birth-of-gustav-holst\/","title":{"rendered":"150th anniversary of the birth of Gustav Holst"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3553\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2024\/06\/holst-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"254\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Gustav Holst, b Cheltenham (1874-1924), was an English composer, arranger and teacher whose suite \u2018The Planets\u2019 is one of the best-known pieces of classical music ever written.<\/p>\n<p>Holst&#8217;s works were played frequently in the early years of the 20th century, but it was not until the international success of\u00a0<em>The Planets<\/em>\u00a0in the years immediately after the First World War that he became a well-known figure.<\/p>\n<p>His music combines\u00a0 an international flavour based on the styles of Ravel and Stravinsky, and others with a continuation of English Romanticism. His solo instrument was the trombone, and for some years after leaving the college he made his living as a trombone player in the Carl Rosa Opera Company and in various orchestras.<\/p>\n<p>He was an important influence on a number of younger English composers, including Michael Tippett and Benjamin Britten.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gustav Holst, b Cheltenham (1874-1924), was an English composer, arranger and teacher whose suite \u2018The Planets\u2019 is one of the best-known pieces of classical music ever written. Holst&#8217;s works were played frequently in the early years of the 20th century, but it was not until the international success of\u00a0The Planets\u00a0in the years immediately after the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/2024\/09\/21\/150th-anniversary-of-the-birth-of-gustav-holst\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;150th anniversary of the birth of Gustav Holst&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":572,"featured_media":3554,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[242],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anniversaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/572"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3552"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3556,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3552\/revisions\/3556"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}