What’s your favorite spooky music for Halloween? Mine is “Night on Bald Mountain.” There’s also “Symphonie fantastique” (gulp). Here are a few classical suggestions for holiday listening:
WGUC (90.9 FM) will be playing its annual Tunes from the Crypt, from 6-8 p.m. on Oct. 31.

If you’ve got a ticket to the Cincinnati Symphony’s CSO Proof event, “Dia de los Muertos,” 8 p.m. tonight, Oct. 30, you’re lucky. The candlelit event is SOLD OUT. It will be visually appealing and they collaborating with local artist Rebecca Nava Soto, a Mariachi band and the Cincinnati Baila! Dance Academy. The program features Latin American music and will have candles, an ofrenda and have epitaphs in a graveyard, where guests can add their own voice to the ofrenda.
There are still tickets for Disney’s “Hokus Pokus in Concert,” Nov. 1 and 2 in Music Hall. Join Max, Allison and Dani on a magical Halloween romp through Salem as they match wits with the legendary Sanderson sisters. Catch this bewitching film on the big screen as the Cincinnati Pops performs the score live to film. 513-381-3300, or click here.
Across the river, James R. Cassidy and the Kentucky Symphony Orchestra will open their season with Nosferatu (A Symphony Of Horrors), film to live orchestral accompaniment, 7:30 p.m. Friday, October 31 in Greaves Concert Hall at NKU. The silent horror film classic Nosferatu is paired with the music from the 1828 opera Der Vampyr, adapted to the film for live orchestral accompaniment by composer Timothy Brock. The evening will open with the Disney 1929 cartoon “The Skeleton Dance” featuring Carl Stallings’ musical accompaniment, before launching into the 86-minute feature film. Attend dressed as your favorite cinematic vampire and receive a free, bloody-good drink courtesy of the KSO. For additional info and tickets — visit kyso.org or call (859) 431- 6216. Tickets: $19 – $35
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Janelle,
I don’t know if I have a spooky favorite. Last year we recorded a mix of Halloween / Dia de los Muertos music that would qualify under macabre. “Pianos” from Danny Elfman’s Serenada Schizophrana has a little “Tubular Bells” feel at the beginning. John Corigliano’s Phantasmagoria from Ghost of Versailles is cute and creepy, Scary — maybe George Crumbs Dark Angels (str Quartet) Mvt. I
That’s all I have off the top of my disembodied head.
J.R. Cassidy
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