 His works from this period include the "Choral Symphony" to words by Keats (a "Second Choral Symphony" to words by George Meredith exists only in fragments).A short Shakespearian opera, "At the Boar's Head", followed; neither had the immediate popular appeal of "A Moorside Suite" for brass band of 1928.In 1927 Holst was commissioned by the New York Symphony Orchestra to write a symphony.