DUSS - Youth Symphony - Fall 2018 Music

The Planets, Op. 32, is a seven-movement orchestral suite by the English composer Gustav Holst, written between 1914 and 1916. Each movement of the suite is named after a planet of the Solar System and its corresponding astrological character as defined by Holst.

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The Planets - Mars       Music

The Planets - Jupiter    Music

 

Masquerade was written in 1941 by Aram Khachaturian as incidental music for a production of the play of the same name by Russian poet and playwright Mikhail Lermontov. It premiered on 21 June 1941 in the Vakhtangov Theatre in Moscow.[1] The music is better known in the form of a five-movement suite.

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Masquerade Suite        Music

Recording from the Fall concert