Modest Mussorgsky

Arrangers Career Night on Bald Mountain is a scary but yet peaceful song. It was composed by Modeste Mussorgsky in 1867. The version that will be played by the CRLS orchestra was arranged by Eric Segnitz. Who was Mussorgsky? He was born in the winter of 1839, and grew up in Russia. Modest was a composer, and he was well known for his opera Boris Godunov. He also wrote many other pieces of music such as Pictures from an Exhibition, and Night on Bald Mountain. Before he became a composer, Modest was always interested in music. As a child, his nanny taught him about russian folk tales. This drew him to story writing. His mother was an excellent pianist, and gave him lessons at age seven. When he was 10, his music career was disturbed when his father sent him and his brother to the Peter-Paul school in st. Petersburg to pursue a life in the military. During this time, his father entrusted his music career at the hands of Prof. Anton Gurke at St. Petersburg Conservatory. In 1852, he entered the School for Cadets of the Guard, where he composed his first piece, Pod Praporshchik. His father paid for it. Once he became a lieutenant, he joined the…

Borodin was speaking of the famous Russian composer, Modest Mussorgsky. Mussorgsky is most known for works such as, "Night on Bald Mountain," "Boris Godunov" and "Pictures at an Exhibition." He first began composing in his teens but it took awhile for him to devote his life to music and music alone. The story of “Modest Mussorgsky is one filled with a few twists and turns, but it would prove to be one that would produce music that is still played even today. Early life: Mussorgsky was born…

Social constraints and prejudice placed on people by society had and still have substantial effects. This allows ignorant people to develop preconceived notions and judgments of individuals based on what society have deemed them to be. The struggle for equality can push people to break away from barriers; however, many tend to stick within the framework that society has constructed for them due to the constraints that they place on themselves. Both Jonathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal” and…

flyers were dispersed all through Ireland to advance the thoughts of different savvy people and laymen. Nonetheless, numerous tossed them and did not pay consideration on them. Jonathan Swift, creator of “ A Modest Proposal,” exploits the disregarded flyers, and builds a ludicrous proposal. He does this to show how reverse and terrible the condition of Ireland is and the social classes. Swift suggests that the infants of all poor people and destroy will "add to the bolstering, and halfway to the…

Johnathan Foer in "Let Them Eat Dog" suggests that to solve hunger, individuals within society should eat the millions of dogs that are going to be euthanized in shelters. In Johnathan Swift 's argument, "A Modest Proposal", he suggests that Ireland combat the famine during that time by using the surplus of children as a food source. "Let Them Eat Dog" and "A Modest Proposal" are arguments written satirically to inform society of a historically long problem, indifference. Foer and Swift call…

Patrick McCabe and John McGahern are noted as two of Ireland’s most influential writers. Although their works have similar themes and take on issues prevalent in Ireland at the time, they have drastically different writing styles. McCabe is cynical yet humorous as he takes on darker subject matters. McGahern in more straightforward in his delivery of despairing plots. McCabe takes a strong interest in small-town Ireland and uncovers the inner workings of small-town folk, all the while…

Walking Through Modernity There are often times when one’s observations of what surrounds him or her lead to conclusions about common sense and society standards . In “Among the School Children,” W.B.Yeats structures his poem as an argumentative piece criticising the social status of the Irish people at the time. To accomplish this, Yeats starts by building up a speaker that could convey this message . The speaker characterises himself as a “sixty-year-old smiling public man” but one can also…

A joke party, also known as a frivolous party or a satirical party, is a political party that is created for the point of entertainment or to make a political statement through satire. Although they do occasionally exist as a way to spread a message across, sometimes they their existence is mainly a source of humor or entertainment. The following is a list of satirical parties from around the world. Although the level of success that they have found varies, they all share one common…

“Weasel Words: The Art of Saying Nothing at All,” by William Lutz, gives a brief overlook about how advertisers present their products to the public. What many advertisers like to do is use many words along with their product to make it into something that is not true at all. The use of Weasel Words is a powerful tool to draw the attention of the buyer. When the advertisers use the words, such as, “New and Improved,” or “Acts fast,” it would cause you to buy it without actually knowing what is…

In the piece of literature known as A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift, the author has written a pamphlet about his ideals during the 1600s. In essence, the piece of writing indicates how there are sound methods for turning seemingly poor children within Ireland into members of the community who can potentially be "useful". Swift found that there were a plethora of poor Catholics living in Ireland at the time and unfortunately many families could not afford to feed and properly clothe their…