History Flicks | History In Motion

Eugene Ormandy Conducts the Philadelphia Orchestra performing Gustav Theodore Holst's "The Planets" movement Saturn, the Bringer of Old Age with the Hubble's top 100 high res pictures. I was overwhelmed looking at the pictures and the presence of a Higher Power is so evident at least to me so I wanted to put these two things together. It came out great I think. If you get a chance listen to his whole symphony you'll will love it. The suite has seven movements, each of them named after a planet and its corresponding Roman deity (see also Planets in astrology): 1.Mars, the Bringer of War 2.Venus, the Bringer of Peace 3.Mercury, the Winged Messenger 4.Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity 5.Saturn, the Bringer of Old Age 6.Uranus, the Magician 7.Neptune, the Mystic The order of the movements corresponds to increasing distance of their eponymous planets from the Earth. Some commentators have suggested that this is intentional, with the anomaly of Mars preceding Venus being a device to make the first four movements match the form of a symphony.-- Gustav Holst (Composer), Ralph Vaughan Williams (Composer), Eugene Ormandy (Conductor), Philadelphia Orchestra (Orchestra)