Steve writes:
>... In contrast, "Venus" recalls Holst's earlier almost salon-like vein.
>Daughter Imogen heard the "last, lingering spores" of Holst's infatuation
>with Wagner's music, but she knows more Wagner than I.
The melody of Venus is a cell inversion of the opening of Seigfried
Idyll without the passing notes.
Stirling Newberry
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