Night on Bald Mountain Night on Bald Mountain Night on Bald Mountain (), also known as Night on the Bare Mountain, is a series of compositions by Modest Mussorgsky (1839–1881). Inspired by Russian literary works and legend, Mussorgsky composed a "musical picture", "St. John's Eve on Bald Mountain" () on the theme of a witches' sabbath occurring on St. John's Eve, which he completed on that very night, 23 June 1867. Together with Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov's "Sadko" (1867), it is one of the first tone poems by a Russian composer. Although Mussorgsky was proud of his youthful effort, his mentor, Miliy Balakirev, refused to perform
Bare (magazine) "speak[ing] the earnest psychobabble of the Hampstead eco-hypochondriac". Bare (magazine) Bare was a British magazine developed and launched as a wellbeing brand by the John Brown Media company It was published from Sept/Oct 2000 to August 2001, with six issues per year. An early version of the magazine, then called "Well" was tested in market research groups in 1999 where Claudia Zeff, then art director of "UK Gardens Illustrated" commissioned designer, Kirsten Willey to produce a wellbeing magazine concept. It was Zeff who suggested the name change from "Well" to "Bare" after watching a BBC documentary about British architect, John