The peak is revealed to be Chernabog's wings, which he spreads out as he looks at the village down below. The segment takes place in a mountainous area, in which a village is overlooked by Bald Mountain. It showcases the animation of Vladimir Tytla and the style of Kay Nielsen, as well as the longest shot ever produced in the multi-plane camera (in the procession). It is perhaps the most famous sequence in Fantasia, if not, second to The Sorcerer's Apprentice.

He is driven away by the light of the dawn, and a procession of figures walks up a hill to witness the sunrise.

Deems Taylor introduces it as the conflict between the profane (represented by Night on Bald Mountain) and the sacred (represented by Ave Maria).Īt Walpurgis Night (the Witches' Sabbath), Chernabog, God of evil, emerges from the peak of Bald Mountain (in reality Mount Triglaf, near Kiev in southern Russia) to summon all of his minions, including ghosts, vultures, demons, hags, and harpies, who dance furiously as he throws them into the mountain's fiery pit. Night on Bald Mountain/Ave Maria is the seventh and final segment of Fantasia, following the medley containing compositions of the same name by Modest Mussorgsky and Franz Schubert. Musically and dramatically, we have here a picture of the struggle between the profane and the sacred.” ― Deems Taylor The second is Franz Schubert's world-famous Ave Maria. The first is Night on Bald Mountain by one of Russia's greatest composers, Modest Mussorgsky. “ The last number on our Fantasia program is a combination of two pieces of music so utterly different in construction and mood that they set each other off perfectly.

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