Composer and cellist Cris Derksen talks about Mussorgsky’s Night on Bald Mountain, braiding her Cree and Mennonite ancestry, and how her dog might be a witch.

Useful links:

Spotify playlist for Cris’s pieces

Spotify playlist for main pieces

Spotify playlist for final question pieces

Other useful links:

Modest Mussorgsky

Mussorgsky’s Night on Bald Mountain

Youtube video of the Night on Bald Mountain bit in the Disney Fantasia movie from 1940

Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition

What is a Powwow

Eybler String Quartet

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Cris Derksen on Spotify

Cris Derksen on Youtube

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