2017-08-12 Summer Pops – Oregon Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra
Made (even more) famous by Disney’s Fantasia, this is one of the most recognizable classical orchestral works today. It is a tone poem by Modest Mussorgsky, detailing a witches’ sabbath occurring on St. John’s Eve (or Kupala Night) on a mountain near Kiev. The piece evokes images of “profane rituals” and conjured evil spirits, and ends as dawn breaks and the hordes vanish.
This was a piece from our August 2017 pops concert – I had a lot of fun playing this.