Dorothy's Rescue (Extended Version)
Night on Bald Mountain also known as Dorothy's Rescue is a piece of music heard in the Climax of MGM's 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz, composed by one of Russia's greatest song writers, Modest Mussorgsky. After the film, it was featured as the conclusion of Disney's concert film Fantasia, teaming up with Franz Schubert's "Ave Maria". performed by the Philidelphia Orchestra and its conductor, Leopold Stokowski. Deems Taylor described the music as a picture of a stuggle between the profane and the sacred:
- "'Bald Mountain', according to tradition, is the gathering place of Satan and his followers. Here, on Walpurgnis Night, which is the equivalent of our own Halloween, the creatures of evil gather to worship their master. Under his spell, they dance furiously until the coming of dawn and the sounds of church bells send the infernal army slinking back into their abodes of darkness."