Salisbury Cathedral pipe organ will breathe new life into Holst's 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 treasur...