Since Halloween falls on a Friday this year – one week from today – I hope you’ll indulge me this weekend as all three of my radio shows will tie in to my favorite holiday.

First, on “Picture Perfect,” music for the movies (Friday at 8:00 p.m. EDT/5:00 p.m. PDT), we’ll enjoy scores from spooky or macabre comedies, including “Arsenic and Old Lace” (Max Steiner), “The Trouble with Harry” (Bernard Herrmann), “The Ghost and Mr. Chicken” (Vic Mizzy), and “Beetlejuice” (Danny Elfman).

Then, tomorrow on “Sweetness and Light” (Saturday morning at 11:00 EDT/8:00 PDT), it will be a light music Halloween, with spooktacular selections associated with haunted ballrooms, ostracized imps, reanimated skeletons, nimble witches, adept sorcerers, ghost removal specialists, consumerist zombies, dancing lunatics, boogey men, headless horsemen, boy wizards, and galloping devils.

Finally, on “The Lost Chord” (Saturday at 7:00 p.m. EDT/4:00 p.m. PDT), écoutez to French music for the season, including Maurice Ravel’s “Gaspard de la nuit,” after grotesque poetry of Aloysius Bertrand (with pianist Gina Bachauer and narrator Sir John Gielgud), a fragment of an unfinished opera inspired by Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher” by Claude Debussy, and an etude subtitled “Scherzo diabolico” by the misanthropic and reclusive Charles-Valentin Alkan.

But wait! There’s more!

Since “Picture Perfect” falls on a Friday, I’ll have one more chance next week, on Halloween proper, when I’ll offer a playlist of evocative and ear-catching vintage horror and science fiction scores from the 1950s, with enough narration and gaudy sound effects to provide the perfect soundtrack for your Trick-or-Treat.

All air times for the above shows are reiterated below. Stream them wherever you are from KWAX, the radio station of the University of Oregon!

https://kwax.uoregon.edu/

PICTURE PERFECT, the movie music show – Friday at 8:00 PM EDT/5:00 PM PDT

SWEETNESS AND LIGHT, the light music program – Saturday at 11:00 AM EDT/8:00 AM PDT

THE LOST CHORD, unusual and neglected rep – Saturday at 7:00 PM EDT/4:00 PM PDT