November 1st. Time to put away the vampires and get all saintly and thankful. To this end, here’s Vaughan Williams’ “Sine Nomine” (“For All the Saints”), performed by the Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge, the composer’s alma mater.
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Screaming Skull Solti Liszt Halloween Music
His musicians dubbed him “The Screaming Skull.” Can’t get much more Halloween than that. I enjoyed listening to Sir Georg Solti’s recording of Liszt’s “A Faust Symphony” while driving around this afternoon. Perhaps you’ll like it too.
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Happy Halloween My Musical Traditions
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:
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Wyeth’s Mischief Night and Lunatic Dance
Image: “Mischief Night” (1994) by Andrew Wyeth
Music: “Dance of the Lunatics” (1912) by Thomas S. Allen
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Nosferatu at Phoenixville’s Blobfest Theater
Off to the The Colonial Theatre in Phoenixville for this afternoon’s 100th anniversary celebration of “Nosferatu” with organist Brett Miller. Of course, this is the infamous Blob movie theater. What could possibly go wrong?
Next summer’s Blobfest runs July 14-16.
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