Modest Mussorgsky - "Night on Bald Mountain"

Some days you just need to hunker down and weather the $#!% storm as it washes over you in waves. You can’t always avoid the messy parts of life, so do the best you can to be prepared when you’ve got to wade through the quagmire.

Much like the wild ride of Disney’s Fantasia you’ve got to just hold on and make sure you make through with as many parts of yourself intact as possible.

Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky was a Russian composer, one of the group known as "The Five". He was an innovator of Russian music in the romantic period. He strove to achieve a uniquely Russian musical identity, often in deliberate defiance of the established conventions of Western music.

Many of his works were inspired by Russian history, Russian folklore, and other national themes. Such works include the opera Boris Godunov, the orchestral tone poem Night on Bald Mountain and the piano suite Pictures at an Exhibition.

For many years Mussorgsky's works were mainly known in versions revised or completed by other composers. Many of his most important compositions have posthumously come into their own in their original forms, and some of the original scores are now also available.

So today, holding on for dear life, I choose Modest Mussorgsky’s “Night on Bald Mountain” as my, hold on, hunker down, look for the sunrise cresting the horizon, song for a, darkness cannot destroy light, remember to stand your ground, this storm too shall pass, Thursday.