re: #224 freetoken

Since we’re probably going to be hearing a lot today about Neville Chamberlain, might as well play some music from 1939:

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Pluto was discovered in 1930, four years before Holst’s death, and was hailed by astronomers as the ninth planet. Holst, however, expressed no interest in writing a movement for the new planet. He had become disillusioned by the popularity of the suite, believing that it took too much attention away from his other works.[27]

In the March 1972 final broadcast of his Young People’s Concerts series, conductor Leonard Bernstein led the New York Philharmonic through a fairly straight interpretation of the suite, though Bernstein discarded the Saturn movement because he thought the theme of old age was irrelevant to a concert for children. The broadcast concluded with an improvised performance he called “Pluto, the Unpredictable.”