Night on Bald Mountain Sorochyntsi": It is through Rimsky-Korsakov's version that "Night on Bald Mountain" achieved lasting fame. Premiering in Saint Petersburg in 1886, the work became a concert favourite. Half a century later, the work obtained perhaps its greatest exposure through the Walt Disney animated film "Fantasia" (1940), featuring an arrangement by Leopold Stokowski, based on Rimsky-Korsakov's version. Mussorgsky's tone poem was not published in its original form until 1968. Although still rarely performed, it has started to gain exposure and become familiar to modern audiences. The original Russian title of the tone poem, "Иванова ночь на лысой горе", translates literally as "Saint
Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 "so perfect a poem" as this sonnet in response to an objection from a lady that London could not both be "bare" and "clothed" (an example of the use of paradox in literature). That the sonnet so closely follows Dorothy's journal entry comes as no surprise because Dorothy wrote her "Grasmere Journal" to "give Wm pleasure by it" and it was freely available to Wordsworth, who said of Dorothy that "She gave me eyes, she gave me ears" in his poem "The Sparrow's Nest". Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 "Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802" is a