Heinz Kern asks: >Does anybody know any compositions - apart from Holst's Planets and >Stockhausen's Zodiac - that are related to Astronomy, Astrology or the >Universe? Oh, yes, another one just occurred: John Cage's "Atlas Eclipticalis," named after a major star atlas dating from the 1950's. (The other atlases in the 3-volume series were Atlas Borealis and Atlas Australis, but I don't think Cage ever got around to those.) I've never heard Eclipticalis, but IIRC, didn't Levine record it with Chicago for DGG? Presumably Cage used some parts of the stellar data--coordinates, magnitudes, spectral types, or something--as a basis for his composition. Does anyone else know the details? Cheers, Mike Smith Boulder, Colorado