Home sweet home – Turtle and dogs
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05Mar
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05Mar
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05Mar
Mess with Salty next time, Pluto. He likes you, even if you mess with his routine. Unlike this guy.
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05Mar
Dog love and milk
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04Mar
Dog and squirrels play with fire
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04Mar
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. In 2000, the Hallé Orchestra commissioned the English composer Colin Matthews, an authority on Holst, to write a new eighth movement, which he called “Pluto, the Renewer”. Dedicated to the late Imogen Holst, Gustav Holst’s daughter, it was first performed in Manchester on 11 May 2000, with Kent Nagano conducting the Hallé Orchestra. Matthews also changed the ending of “Neptune” slightly so that movement would lead directly into “Pluto”. Six years later, in August 2006, the International Astronomical Union promulgated for the very first time a definition of the term “planet”, which resulted in Pluto’s status being demoted from planet to dwarf planet. Consequently, Holst’s original work is once again a complete representation of all of the extraterrestrial planets in the Solar System. When British composer Colin Matthews was commissioned to “complete” Gustav Holst’s famous The Planets Pluto was still deemed a planet. However, the unfortunate Pluto later had it’s planetary status stripped from it, so Pluto is, in essence, the Lance Armstrong of planetary bodies. Colin Matthews gave his piece the title “Pluto, The Renewer”. The Greco-Roman god Pluto was the …
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04Mar
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Downtown Disney Florida Wolfgang Puck Express
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04Mar
