Larry Sherwood <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>I don't think Holst was incomplete: he was referring to the zodiac when he
>wrote "The Planets".

Holst tried to have his musical cake & eat it, too: the brief for The
Planets was astrological; but he included both Uranus & Neptune, both
of which were telescopic discoveries & therefore without historical
astrological significance.  I would agree, though, that aesthetically
the suite as written - from the fury of Mars to the mystic wanderings
of Neptune - has little obvious need of completion, Pluto/Charon or
no Pluto/Charon....

All the best,
Robert Clements <[log in to unmask]>