The Planets

We have just come back from a very good open air concert just south of Glastonbury, conducted by the BBC's Charles Hazlewood (in his back field, basically) - an orchestra doing Holst's Planet Suite. In between planets, he had a subsidiary group as a response orchestra, improvising 'replies' to each movement. I gather this group includes members of Goldfrapp and Portishead, so they're used to innovative material, and what they did was interesting.

As they played, Jupiter rose like a lamp in the so
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Published on August 29, 2009 21:53
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