The record that frightened me was Mussorgsky's "Night on Bald Mountain," the surreal celebration of evil during the night of the Witches' Sabbath so vividly animated in "Fantasia."
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America has entered the season of the witch. Maureen, if you're going to mention music in the same essay that you use the phrase "season of the witch", for god's sake, give some credit to Donovan.
Quite rightly.