Spooky Spectacular and Haunting Resonance Listening Links

Listening Links for the Opening Season Concerts

Evening concert on Oct. 10, 7:30 p.m.

More music for the adults.  Tickets available at myosu.org

Children's Jubilee on Oct. 12 with Musical Spook Alley and activites from 12 noon to 1:50 p.m. and a concert designed for all ages at 2 p.m.  FREE, but you need tickets at myosu.org

(Titles in Blue link to the videos - 

there may be ads so parents should help smaller children skip the ads.)

Wagner "Ride of the Valkyries"

"In the Walküre opera, the Ride of the Valkyries, which takes around eight minutes, begins in the prelude to the third act, building up successive layers of accompaniment until the curtain rises to reveal a mountain peak where four of the eight Valkyrie sisters of Brünnhilde have gathered in preparation for the transportation of fallen heroes to Valhalla. As they are joined by the other four, the familiar tune is carried by the orchestra, while, above it, the Valkyries greet each other and sing their battle-cry." (Wikipedia)

Danse Macabre

"The Danse Macabre also called the Dance of Death, is an artistic genre of allegory from the Late Middle Ages on the universality of death." The first violin solo uses a different tuning to conjure the spooky theme." (Wikipedia)

Hall of the Mountain King

"In the Hall of the Mountain King is a piece of orchestral music composed by Edvard Grieg in 1875 as incidental music for the sixth scene of act 2 in Henrik Ibsen's 1867 play Peer Gynt. In the play, Dovregubben is a troll king that Peer Gynt invents in a fantasy." (Wikipedia)

Stranger Things Theme

"A love letter to the supernatural classics of the 80's, Stranger Things is the story of a young boy who vanishes into thin air. As friends, family and local police search for answers, they are drawn into an extraordinary mystery involving top-secret government experiments, terrifying supernatural forces and one very strange little girl." (notes from Netflix description) The version the Orchestra of Southern Utah will play is a new arrangement by OSU composer in residence Jacob Lee.

Psycho Suite

Bernard Herrmann's music for movies "went beyond just mimicking the onscreen action to elicit scares—they provided an undercurrent of unease that proved vital to the success of the whole film," (Wikipedia)  Director Alfred Hitchcock credited “33% of the effect of Psycho was due to the music.”  The OSU performance includes all of the first of the Suite and goes to the Finale after the Murder.

Isle of the Dead

"Isle of the Dead is the best-known painting of Swiss Symbolist artist Arnold Böcklin (1827–1901)."(Wikipedia) 

The music for "Isle of the Dead Op. 29, is a symphonic poem composed by Sergei Rachmaninoff, written in the key of A minor. The piece was inspired by a black and white reproduction of Arnold Böcklin's painting Isle of the Dead, which he saw in Paris in 1907. He composed the work from January to March of 1909." (Wikipedia)