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Favorite Planet from Holst's "The Planets"

  • Mars

    Votes: 4 7.8%
  • Venus

    Votes: 4 7.8%
  • Mercury

    Votes: 1 2.0%
  • Jupiter

    Votes: 18 35.3%
  • Saturn

    Votes: 9 17.6%
  • Uranus

    Votes: 6 11.8%
  • Neptune

    Votes: 9 17.6%

Favorite Planet

9K views 48 replies 29 participants last post by  20centrfuge 
#1 ·
Of Holst's Symphonic Suite "The Planets" which movement is your personal favorite and why?
 
#41 ·
I voted Jupiter and would expect Jupiter to lead the statistical results though not necessarily a clear majority.
 
#43 ·
My stepdad told me to vote for Jupiter because I couldn't decide.
 
#45 ·
Holst had great foresight in leaving out Pluto (though it hadn't been discovered yet). It has since been demoted from full planet status. But we need a couple more movements, perhaps from less talented composers, for Pluto and Ceres as well.

As things are, I'll take Jupiter.
 
#48 ·
My second favorite planet in our solar system would have to be Pluto because it fits my requirement of being extemely far away from the other humans, whom I simply have no use for.

Marlon Brando had it right-living alone on his own island. Paradise!!!

As far as the score to the Planets, I find it dull. Two or three listenings is more than enough.
 
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