I Guess Holst was Right…

In the early 1900s, Gustav Holst composed a suite dedicated to the known planets of the solar system, entitled “The Planets”.   It was comprised of seven individual pieces ranging from Mercury to Neptune (excluding Earth), ordered by distance from the sun.  Clearly he had written this opus prior to the discovery of Pluto in 1930.

Recently, Pluto has been reclassified as a dwarf planet, 134340.  Perhaps Holst knew what he was doing when he omitted an eighth piece.   Regardless of what the classification of the ninth entity in our solar system (sometimes more distal and sometimes more proximal than Neptune), I recommend listening to Holst’s Planets Suite. 7 very different pieces for 7 very different heavenly bodies.  Hey, if King Crimson liked “Mars” enough to cover at early gigs, it must be good.