The Holst Pages

Books:

A Comprehensive Biography of Composer Gustav Holst with Correspondence and Diary Excerpts

(Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2001), 699+ pp.

Reviewed by Leon Bly in The WASBE Newsletter, XVI/4 (December, 2001), 19.

From Kneller Hall to Hammersmith: The Band Works of Gustav Holst (Tutzing, Germany: Haus Hans Schneider, 1990), 199+ pp.

Reviewed by Michael Short in Music and Letters, LXXII, 311 and by Wolfgang Suppan in Die Blasmusik, XL/9, 272 (in German).

Articles:

“Holst, Stock, and The Planets,” Journal of the Conductors Guild, XXIV (Winter/Spring-Summer/Fall, 2003, published 2004), 33-48.

“Early Performances at Kneller Hall of British Band Classics,” in Kongressberichte Bad Waltersdorf/Steirmark 2000/Lana/Suedtirol 2002

(Tutzing, Germany: Haus Hans Schneider, 2003), 405-414.

“Imogen Holst’s ‘The Unfortunate Traveller,’” in Kongressberichte Bad Waltersdorf/Steirmark 2000/Lana/Suedtirol 2002

(Tutzing, Germany: Haus Hans Schneider, 2003), 61-74.

“The Kneller Hall Archives,” in Wolfgang Suppan (ed.), IGEB Kongressbericht XII: Mainz, 1996

(Tutzing, Germany: Haus Hans Schneider, 1998), 11-30.

“Military Music at the Festival of Empire,” WASBE Journal, III (December, 1996), 48-55.

“Was This Holst’s First Band Work?” in Wolfgang Suppan (ed.), IGEB Kongressbericht XI: Abony 1994 (Tutzing, Germany: Haus Hans Schneider,

1996), 353-362.

“JAC Somerville and the British Band in the Era of Holst and Vaughan Williams,” in Frank J. Cipolla (ed.) and Donald Hunsberger (ed.)

The Wind Ensemble and Its Repertoire: Essays on the Fortieth Anniversary of the Eastman Wind Ensemble (Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 1995), 111-120.

“James Causley Windram’s Military Band Settings of Gustav Holst’s Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda,” Journal of Band Research,

XXX/1 (Fall, 1994--published 1996), 69-77.

“Fruehe Schallplatten Aufnamen der Werke fur Militaerblasorchester von Gustav Holst und Ralph Vaughan Williams,” IGEB Mitteilungsblatt,

Jahrgang 1990/2 (August, 1990), 235-241.

“Gustav Holst’s Duet for Trombone and Organ,” International Trombone Association Journal,

XVIII/1 (Winter, 1990), 22-25.

“The Holst Septet for Winds,” JBR, XXIV/1 (Fall, 1988), 52-58.

“Sketches for A Moorside Suite,” JBR, XXII/2 (Spring, 1987), 1-6.

“The Hammersmith Sketches,” College Band Directors National Association Journal, III/1 (Spring, 1986), 8-17.

“The Premieres of Hammersmith,” solicited for the premiere issue of the College Band Directors National Band Association

Journal, I/1 (Spring, 1984), 18-27.

“Thematic Borrowings in the Holst Band Works,” Journal of the British Association of Symphonic Bands and Wind Ensembles, IV/2 (Spring,

1984), 28-29.

“Gustav Holst’s Three Folk Tunes: A Source for the Second Suite in F,” JBR XIX/1 (Fall, 1983), 1-4.

“Gustav Holst: The Band Works in Retrospect,” JBASBWE, III (Spring, 1983), 10-18 and IV

(Fall, 1983), 13.

“Early Performances of the Holst Suites for Military Band,” JBR, XVII/2 (Spring, 1982), 39-50.

“Gustav Holst: The Other Works for Military Band,” JBR, XVI/2 (Spring, 1981), 1-12.

Edited Music:

Gustav Holst, arr. G. E. Smith, ed. JCM: Country Song, Op. 22, No. 1 (London: Novello, 1998).

Article Contributor:

Jeffrey Renshaw, “Seating Bands for the Music,” The Instrumentalist, LV/3 (October, 2000),

18-26 [contributed seating charts and commentary regarding Holst and Persichetti].

CD Notes:

Cornerstones of the British Band Repertoire: Holst, Vaughan Williams, and Jacob (The Keystone Wind Ensemble,

Jack Stamp and Paul Murrell, conductors), CITADEL CTD 88137, 1999