WGUC has celebrated Halloween over the past two decades with six different Tunes from the Crypt specials. Classical music has a wealth of pieces that set the perfect atmosphere for the holiday and the music written for film provides another rich source for an experience that sends chills up your spine.
Even in the dead of summer, the first few notes of Bach’s Toccata and Fugue or Saint-Saëns’ Danse Macabre will invoke images of graveyards, skeletons and witches brew.
The time is here! Halloween celebrations will look a little different this year. But, Tunes from the Crypt is one tradition we can still enjoy without hesitation - and maybe find a new scary piece to add to your list of favorites.
We’ve started a list of favorites not to be missed. What are yours?
- Camille Saint- Saëns: Danse Macabre
- Gustav Holst: The Planets: Mars, the Bringer of War
- Modest Mussorgsky: Night on Bald Mountain
- Manuel DeFalla: Dance of Terror
- Andrew Lloyd-Webber: Overture from Phantom of the Opera
- Hector Berlioz: Dream of a Witches Sabbath from Symphonie Fantastique
- Richard Wagner: “Ride of the Valkyries” from Die Walkure
- Jerry Goldsmith: The Omen
