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Re: Holst - Planets
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Stirling Newberry <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 19 Mar 2001 15:55:15 -0500
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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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