Salisbury Cathedral pipe organ will breathe new life into Holst’s The Planets

Unique performance with help of children is intended to get people thinking about the work afresh

A unique performance of Gustav Holst’s masterwork The Planets – played on a magnificent pipe organ rather than by an orchestra and punctuated by poems inspired by children’s responses to the music – is to be staged in the suitably vast Salisbury Cathedral.

The idea of the community music project is to introduce more people, young and old, to the 140-year-old “Father” Willis organ, one of the treasures of the cathedral.

Details of the show can be found at: www.salisburycathedral.org.uk/arrangements/the-planets-gustav-holst/