March 29, 2026 by Melissa Sweeney 10 3/29/2026 – Happy Sunday! Please listen and read about the theme of Homeland. Have a wonderful week. Reels Classics • Classical Music on Instagram: “ Gustav Holst — The Planets, Op. 32 — IV. Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity hr-Sinfonieorchester · Hugh Wolff, regente • In the video, you heard what Holst called a “happy accident.” But nothing in this suite was an accident. In 1913, a year before the war, Holst traveled to Spain with friends and returned obsessed with astrology. He bought the book What is a Horoscope? by Alan Leo and spent months studying the temperament of each planet as if studying a person. When he sat down to compose, he didn’t want to describe orbits or sizes — he wanted to translate what each planet made you feel. He spent three years dictating note by note, unable to write alone. The result is seven movements that sound like seven states of the soul, and the fourth of them is the one you just heard on your headphones. • What the video didn’t have time to tell: Holst hated the fame The Planets brought. When asked for an autograph, he would hand out a printed c instagram.com -Marty Share:
Gustav Holst — The Planets, Op. 32 — IV. Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity hr-Sinfonieorchester · Hugh Wolff, regente 
• In the video, you heard what Holst called a “happy accident.” But nothing in this suite was an accident. In 1913, a year before the war, Holst traveled to Spain with friends and returned obsessed with astrology. He bought the book What is a Horoscope? by Alan Leo and spent months studying the temperament of each planet as if studying a person. When he sat down to compose, he didn’t want to describe orbits or sizes — he wanted to translate what each planet made you feel. He spent three years dictating note by note, unable to write alone. The result is seven movements that sound like seven states of the soul, and the fourth of them is the one you just heard on your headphones. • What the video didn’t have time to tell: Holst hated the fame The Planets brought. When asked for an autograph, he would hand out a printed c