Leonard Bernstein and the @New York Philharmonic's final Young People's Concert was broadcast on this day in 1972. The concert explored Gustav Holst's "The Planets". Five of the seven movements—Mars, Venus, Mercury, Jupiter, and Uranus—were performed at the concert, and then Bernstein and the Philharmonic improvised a piece for Pluto, whose discovery in 1930 postdated Holst's composition. We share with you this excerpt of the Young People's Concert, where Bernstein introduces the work. | Leonard

The evocative and ferocious sounds of Mars: The Bringer of War from Holst's The Planets, performed at the #BBCProms by The National Youth Orchestra conducted by Dalia Stasevska. 📺 Watch a full-scale battle of the planets - at BBC Proms Must Watch Tracks on BBC iPlayer now - with the full versions of Mars and the mighty main theme from Star Wars by John Williams 🎧 Hear the full The Planets and Star Wars concert now on BBC Sounds | BBC Proms