This coffee break explores how composers update their own or other composers' work to expand on themes or sometimes change the piece completely. Mr. Somers discusses his piano work Christmas Pastorale and how 48 years later arranged it to include viola. Modest Mussorgsky rearranged his 1867's St. John's Eve of Bald Mountain to be included in his 1880 The Fair at Sorochynsti, Six years later Rimsky-Korsakov rearranged it into the more familiar Fantasy Night on Bald Mountain.

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