The Well-Tempered Ear
What is the best classical Halloween music?
Leave a Comment
PLEASE HELP THE EAR. IF YOU LIKE A CERTAIN BLOG POST, SPREAD THE WORD. FORWARD A LINK TO IT OR, SHARE IT or TAG IT (not just “Like” it) ON FACEBOOK. Performers can use the extra exposure to draw potential audience members to an event. And you might even attract new readers and subscribers to the blog.
By Jacob Stockinger
There is a lot of spookily appropriate classical music to mark Halloween, which is this Tuesday.
The British radio station ClassicFM has published its choice of the “20 scariest Classical music pieces” for Halloween. Here’s a link to the website, which has links to performances of the pieces:
https://www.classicfm.com/discover-music/scary-classical-music-halloween/
But much has been left out from J.S. Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D minor to Beethoven’s “Ghost” Piano Trio, from the finale of Chopin’s “Funeral March” sonata to Philip Glass’s film score for “Dracula” (below):
At the bottom is a YouTube video that has another selection that offers 2.5 hours of Halloween music, maybe something you want to play while you pass out goodies to trick-and-treaters.
Do you have a favorite piece of classical music that particularly expresses the mood or atmosphere of Halloween?
The Ear wants to hear.
Tags: #BlogPost, #BlogPosting, #ClassicFM, #FacebookPost, #YouTubevideo, Arts, atmosphere, audience, Bach, Baroque, Bartok, Beethoven, Berlioz, Bernard Herrmann, blog, British, Cello, Chamber music, choice, Chopin, choral music, Classical music, composer, Concert, concerto, Copland, Dracula, Dukas, Early music, English, express, Facebook, favorite, Film score, FM, Frankenstein, ghoist, goodies, grave, graveyard, Grieg, Hitchcock, Holiday, Jacob Stockinger, Johann Sebastian Bach, John Williams, link, Liszt, Ludwig van Beethoven, Madison, magic, Mahler, Maurice Jarre, mood, Mozart, Music, Mussorgsky, opera, Orchestra, Orff, Overture Center, performance, Philip Glass, Piano, Piano Trio, piece, play, Prokofiev, Psycho, Rachmaninoff, Rachmaninov, Radio, Requiem, share, Sonata, sorcerer, spook, spooky, symphony, The Ear, toccata, Toccata and Fugue in D minor, trick or treat, Trick-or-treating, UK, United States, University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Music, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Verdi, Viola, Violin, Vivaldi, vocal music, Wagner, Website, werewolf, Wisconsin, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, YouTube
Classical music: Music critic Alex Ross praises Tom Cruise’s use of Puccini’s opera “Turandot” in the new “Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation” movie.
3 Comments
By Jacob Stockinger.
Looks like it’s going to be a hot and humid weekend.
Just the kind of weather to go see a movie in an air-conditioned cinema.
If you are an opera fan, you might want to consider seeing Tom Cruise and the latest offering in the “Mission Impossible” franchise -– “Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation” (below) — which features a central opera scene (below).
That is the opinion of the prize-winning music critic Alex Ross (below), who writes for The New Yorker magazine. And many consider Ross the best music critic in the U.S.
In his essay or review in the Aug. 11 issue, Ross traces the use of opera in various movies — including in the romantic comedy “Moonstruck” and in the thrillers by Alfred Hitchcock. Ross argues that Tom Cruise really stands out in the way he does justice to Puccini’s “Turandot,” including the great and popular tenor aria “Nessun dorma.” (Heard at bottom in a YouTube video, with 33 million hits, as sung by Luciano Pavarotti, who made the aria his signature.)
Here is a link to the review by Alex Ross that is well worth reading:
Enjoy!
And leave a comment telling The Ear if you agree with Alex Ross.
Tags: Alex Ross, aria, Arts, choral music, cinema, Classical music, critic, essay, Giacomo Puccini, Hitchcock, Jacob Stockinger, Luciano Pavarotti, Mission Impossible, Mission Impossible: Rogue Naiton, Moonstruck, Music, mystery, Nessun Dorma, opera, Orchestra, Puccini, review, Romantic, tenor, The New Yorker, thriller, Tom Cruise, Turandot, University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Music, University of Wisconsin–Madison, vocal music, YouTube
Recent Comments
The Well-Tempered Ear 