Roger Hecht <[log in to unmask]> wrote:j >>I can't say whether the Planets influenced the great 20th century English >>composers, but the dates of composition are right (1914-16), and I hear >>more Holst in VW, et al. than I do Elgar. and Keith Bizeray replied: >No doubt one of the erudite Listers from BMUSIC will give a full reply, >but I wonder whether the Holst you hear in RVW is not in reality the >traditional / folk influence to be found in both. Probably so. As I said, I swung back and forth between VW and Holst. Roger Hecht