Nymphs and satyrs. Bacchus and the Great God Pan. Headman and Hobby Horse. Hecuba and the Goat of Mendes.

Join me this morning on WPRB, as we partake of a pagan spring. In anticipation of Walpurgis Night and a May Day dance around the maypole, we’ll have music by Sir Arnold Bax, Arrigo Boito, Benjamin Britten, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Howard Hanson, Gustav Holst, Nikos Skalkottas, Bedrich Smetana, and more, as witches and warlocks cavort around bonfires, maenads and bassarids run riot, and Druids and wicker men scoff at Christian piety.

We anticipate the “other Hallowe’en,” this morning from 6 to 11 EDT on WPRB 103.3 FM and wprb.com. I’ll be meticulously applying the body paint, on Classic Ross Amico.

IMAGE: “Departure of the Witches,” or “Faust’s Vision” (1878), by Luis Ricardo Falero