Gustav Holst’s The Planets has shaped the sound of sci-fi, most famously inspiring John Williams’s “The Imperial March” from Star Wars. From the intensity of “Mars, Bringer of War” to the ethereal mystery of “Neptune, the Mystic,” discover the astrological characters of each planet in this singular journey through the cosmos.

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Voyage through the Planets

Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts

“From the creation of the world, to the eternity of the last movement, it is designed to embrace and embody the entire universe ... Every time I conduct this, I cannot hold [back] my tears.” — Yannick Nézet-Séguin

Over the course of six stunning movements and approximately 100 minutes, the birth and cosmic evolution of the natural and metaphysical worlds become grand stories captured in sound. It all culminates in one of music’s most overwhelmingly powerful climaxes. Conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin calls Mahler’s Third one of his top-three favorite symphonies.

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