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Then try and check out Mussorgsky's original Piano Version of Pictures at an Exhibition and follow that with Ravel's orchestrated version of the same. you can see where Emerson was coming from (and going to)
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Good info Keith, but don't forget you can find Modern Classical influence in many other ELP songs like:
1.- The Enemy God Dances with the Black Spirits: Scytian Suite by Prokofiev.
2.- Nutrocker: Fowley's song Based in Nut Cracker Suite
3.- Romeo and Juliet: Prokofiev
4.- Tocatta: Ginastera (Argentina Modern Classical composer)
5.- Knife Edge: Based on Sinfonietta by Janacek (Czech Modern composer)
6.- The Barbarian: Inspired in Bela Bartok's "Allegro Barbaro"
7.- Creole Dance: Ginastera again.
Even Piano Concerto N° 1 has a clear Modern Classical sound.
It's interesting that almost all the progressive symphonic bands have Baroque or Classic influence, but ELP is maybe the only one that bases their music in such a great period clñassical as the late 1800's early 1900's.
And IMHO Modern Classical is probably the most original classical music in history.
Iván