Recently I've gotten the urge to work up a guitar arrangement for Night on Bald Mountain (played with a flatpick, for really nice strong, clear bass notes!.... I've been getting into experimenting with some intricate flatpicking/strumming lately and stumbled onto a wonderful way to play parts of this piece that I think sounds fabulous on my Goodall in particular - now I just have to figure out how to play the other 80% of the piece!).
I have always thought this piece was beautiful and loved the excitement and drama of this piece (and I'm a sucker for anything in a minor key), but it bugs me that it apparently was inspired by a poem about witches and devil worship and creepy icky stuff like that (so, it turns out the creepy bit in Fantasia was not just Disney's original interpretation - it was actually an interpretation of the original inspiration for the piece).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_on_Bald_Mountain
Someone tell me that I'm being silly for letting the original inspiration of the piece bug me!
(This is all basically a rhetorical question/request - I'm really just thinking out loud here.)