#Modest Mussorgski

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Modest Mussorgski / Silent Explosion Orchestra, Promenade III I Paintings of an Exhibition, 2025

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Night on Bald Mountain - Fantasia (1940)

[thebarroomortheboy]

The Night On Bald Mountain sequence was cut from the film when originally released on video. When the sequence was shown in 1940 the studio was overrun with calls and letters from parents who complained that the sequence scared their children. It has since been restored to its original place in the film on subsequent home video releases.

NIGHT ON BALD MOUNTAIN | FANTASIA (1940) | dir. Wilfred Jackson

[thefugitivesaint]

Gustaf Broling (1766-1838), 'Полетъ вѣдьмъ на Лысую гору' (The Flight of the Witches to Bald Mountain), ''Всемирная иллюстрация'', #287, 1874

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Grigoriy Roshal, {1950} Mussorgsky

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The mighty band

[gwydpolls]

Time Travel Question 64: Assorted Other Performances IV

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Please add new suggestions below if you have them for future consideration.

I know a lot of people wanted to know why I chose L'apres Midi d'un Faune instead of Printemps on the first poll. Honestly I'd want to see both, but it was the Rudolf Nureyev's Faune tween me fell in love with when it was newly filmed. Rite of Spring didn't speak to me until I was a little older. It was arbitrary, and Printemps was always going to end up on a later poll. The enthusiasm for it was heart warming.

** London After Midnight is particularly lamented lost media so it gets it's own slot.

*** These are: Mily Balakirev, César Cui, Modest Mussorgsky, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Alexander Borodin. They did not fit in the slot.

[sexygaywizard]

Everybody wants to fuck the goth bitch until she puts Modest Mussorgsky on the aux

[thesobsister]

Today being Saint John’s Eve, you can, of course, commemorate it with a Kern Baby. Tonight, however, you may want to enjoy Modest Mussorgsky’s Night on Bald Mountain, which was originally titled St. John's Eve on Bald Mountain (Иванова ночь на лысой горе), as famously depicted by Disney animators for 1940’s Fantasia:

Mussorgsky wrote the piece based on Nikolai Gogol’s short story “St. John’s Eve,” available via the link.

Or you may want to take in a performance, live or recorded, of Will Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, which some believe was written to celebrate this night, the 24th being Midsummer Day.

Here are four lovable moptops in 1964 mugging their way through that work’s play-within-a-play, the tragical tale of the lovers Pyramus and Thisbe:

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Calling all Mussorgsky fans

[ersh-of-history]

it screams toxic yuri to me

[stephantom]

This is so sick, I have to share it. The Rite of Spring by Igor Stravinsky (complete) on guitars!

So fucking dissonant and insane. (But that is really what the classical piece sounds like too, if you’ve never heard it!)

Or for lighter listening, Modest Mussorgsky’s Night On Bald Mountain covered by the same guy:

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The Mighty Five