She comes down from Yellow Mountain
On a dark, flat land she rides
On a pony she named Wildfire
With a whirlwind by her side
On a cold Nebraska night
Oh, they say she died one winter
When there came a killing frost
And the pony she named Wildfire
Busted down its stall
In a blizzard, he was lost
She ran calling Wildfire
She ran calling Wildfire
She ran calling Wildfire
By the dark of the moon, I planted
But there came an early snow
Been a hoot-owl howling outside my window now
'Bout six nights in a row
She's coming for me, I know
And on Wildfire we're both gonna go
We'll be ridin' Wildfire
We'll be ridin' Wildfire
We'll be ridin' Wildfire
On Wildfire we're gonna ride
We're gonna leave sodbustin' behind
Get these hard times right on out of our minds
Riding Wildfire
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"The song has a piano intro and outro which was edited out for radio. The introduction is based on a piece, Prelude in D-flat, Op. 11 No. 15, by the Russian classical composer Alexander Scriabin."
"Scriabin found significant appeal in the concept of Gesamtkunstwerk as well as synesthesia, and associated colours with the various harmonic tones of his scale, while his colour-coded circle of fifths was also inspired by theosophy. He is often considered the main Russian symbolist composer and a major representative of the Russian Silver Age. "
"Scriabin was an innovator as well as one of the most controversial composer-pianists of the early 20th century. The Great Soviet Encyclopedia said of him, "no composer has had more scorn heaped on him or greater love bestowed." Leo Tolstoy described Scriabin's music as "a sincere expression of genius."
"Scriabin's oeuvre exerted a salient influence on the music world over time, and inspired composers such as Igor Stravinsky, Sergei Prokofiev, and Karol Szymanowski. But Scriabin's importance in the Russian (subsequently Soviet) musical scene, and internationally, drastically declined after his death. According to his biographer Faubion Bowers, "No one was more famous during their lifetime, and few were more quickly ignored after death."
"Apparently precocious, Scriabin began building pianos after becoming fascinated with piano mechanisms.
He sometimes gave houseguests pianos he had built. Lyubov portrays Scriabin as very shy and unsociable with his peers, but appreciative of adult attention. According to one anecdote, Scriabin tried to conduct an orchestra composed of local children, an attempt that ended in frustration and tears.
He performed his own plays and operas with puppets to willing audiences. He studied the piano from an early age, taking lessons with Nikolai Zverev, a strict disciplinarian, who was also the teacher of Sergei Rachmaninoff and other piano prodigies"
"Scriabin entered a wager with his friend, M.P. Belaieff that by April 1896 he could compose a cycle of forty-eight preludes twice traversing the major and minor keys. Although he had already completed forty-six of the pieces he distanced himself from this project and divided the preludes over several volumes and opus numbers (op. 11, 13, 15, 16 and 17).
Only opus 11, with its strict adherence to the circle of fifths to encompass each major and minor key, bears a resemblance to his original idea. Quite apart from the spiritual kinship with Chopin's art apparent in Scriabin's early music, both cycles are similar in construction, with the pieces arranged in parallel major and minor keys following the circle of fifths.
However, Scriabin himself never mentioned a conscious attempt to imitate Chopin's set of preludes, and by this time he had put aside his early enthusiasm for the Polish composer's music."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/24_Preludes,_Op._11_(Scriabin)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Scriabin
"Cansler started his musical career by majoring in music composition at North Texas State University.
Cansler, a longtime private pilot, joined the Rutan Voyager support team as a press spokesman. This role led to his announcing and producing airshows around the United States. He and Dick Rutan jointly produced an airshow at Langkawi Island, Malaysia, featuring American airshow pilots and skydivers and a MiG 29 demonstration team from the Russian Air Force."
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