Music Man

As an addendum to last Sunday's post, for those who don't know, the tune to "I Vow To Thee My Country", which is known in the church hymnal as Thaxted, is in fact a slight re-writing of the middle tune of "Jupiter" from Gustav Holst's suite "The Planets".  Apparently, according to Holst's daughter, he was asked to set the words to music at a time when he was very busy and over-worked, and was mightily relieved when he realised they would nicely fit the "Jupiter" tune.