Earth, Holst, and Chaolity — Edited and Ready to Use
The solar flares — the aurora borealis — have appeared in unexpected places this year, and will continue as the solar storm carries on, with the unbelievable force of charged particles blasting from the sun and striking Earth.
This severe space storm could even knock out mobile phones this weekend.
I’ve always loved the incredible music of Gustav Holst, especially The Planets. He brings each planet to life through music. Yet he chose not to write a score for Earth. I imagine even the greatest mind would struggle to create an orchestral piece that could encompass the cacophony of noise drifting across space from our home planet.
The magical sounds of nature and laughter. The wind blowing gently through the trees. The sea lapping across sands and pebbles. The calls and caws of birds. Dogs barking, cats meowing, and the millions of other sounds that say: we are here. We exist. Our oval‑shaped planet is bursting with beauty, love, goodness, laughter, unity, and happiness.
It would be impossible to compose a score that captures the beauty of Earth and all its wondrous simplicity and innocent complexity.
Such sounds would be drowned out by thousands of aeroplanes of every size taking off and landing, circumnavigating the planet. The roar of traffic — billions of cars, buses, motorbikes, lorries, and trucks zooming along every road in every land. The blast of bombs, rockets, missiles, guns. The screams of the trapped, injured, and terrified. The gut‑wrenching cries from children and adults as they look upon the torn bodies of the person who, moments ago, had been living, breathing, standing or sitting beside them — loving them, protecting them, sheltering them.
Nothing Holst, or any composer alive or dead, could successfully create a score to summarise this — our home.
Mars, the Bringer of War
Venus, the Bringer of Peace
Mercury, the Winged Messenger
Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity
Saturn, the Bringer of Old Age
Uranus, the Magician
Neptune, the Mystic
I can’t think of an appropriate name for Earth. The closest word is Chaolity.
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