Being a peacemaker instead of a war-bringer - that is what is really tough in today's hyper-violent America.
"If Holst's Mars was the bringer of war," reckons Wire magazine, "then Ballet Mécanique sounds like war itself".
8 | The Planets Gustav Holst always denied that Mars, the Bringer of War in his orchestral work The Planets (1914-16), was a direct response to the onset of war.
The start of "Mars, the Bringer of War" felt slightly erratic.
The five poems given last, night were "Mars, the Bringer of War," Venus, the Bringer of Peace," "Mercury, the Winged Messenger," "Saturn, the Bringer of Old Age," and "Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity".
The former PM has certainly booked his place in history as a bringer of war, but he has another, opposite claim too: as a peacemaker.
In an idea such as that developed by Holst in the opening poem on "Mars, the Bringer of War" the temptation to make discord the goal of music is too much for us.
At a career-making concert in Hyde Park, opening for the Rolling Stones, King Crimson played a ferocious set that ended with an acknowledgment of England's musical heritage: a rendition of "Mars, the Bringer of War," by the English composer Gustav Holst.
That genesis is the stuff of myth; far more revealing is the three-month period Cameron spent in 1983 writing the scripts for "The Terminator," "Rambo and Aliensns," figuring out how many pages per hour he had to write, then cranking them out to an accompaniment of "Mars, the Bringer of War" from "The Planets".
There were brilliant flashes, head-throbbing bangs, huge groups of flares in red and green, chrysanthemums in red, white and yellow and, during passages from "Mars, the Bringer of War" by Gustav Holst, dozens of small green flares that seemed to dance on the water like little green men.
In archetypal neo-progressive fashion, it builds through multiple sections, with a Psalm 23/Lords' Prayer spoken-word part backed by a staccato riff stolen from Gustav Holst's Mars, the Bringer of War, and a powerful closing section demonstrating Fish's growing powers as a lyricist.
