Happy Halloween!

Hard for me not to be on the air today. For me, so much of the best Halloween music is on the shorter side, and the most enjoyable playlist intersperses fairly brief tricks (3 to 6 minutes) with medium-length treats (15 to 20 minutes), and if I’m not spinning the platters for broadcast, I just won’t get to hear them. I’m not going to put on a three-minute piece of music for myself. So no Frederic Curzon “Dance of an Ostracised Imp,” no Thomas S. Allen “Dance of the Lunatics,” No Charles Ives “Hallowe’en.” I could go on.

At any rate, I hope you are able to find some musical enjoyment in your day. I’ll be finishing up reading some ghost stories and by mid-afternoon probably be stacking up the Halloween movies. I’ll listen to “A Faust Symphony” or something while doing my wildlife food deliveries, and I’ll be sure to get in a Halloween walk and a slice of pumpkin pie with my afternoon coffee. Mostly, I guess, I’ll be living the ideal Halloween in my head.

Surely it would include this: