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Classical California's Halloween Spook-Out

Join Brian Lauritzen for two hours of creepy, spooky, scary music perfect for a Halloween evening, classical-style. Halloween begins in the shadows and ends with a bang in this two-hour musical journey through ghosts, funerals, witches, vampires, murder, and even a conga line through hell. We ease into the darkness with the haunting stillness of Philip Glass, William Bolcom’s Graceful Ghost Rag, and Schumann’s mysterious Ghost Variations before things take a decidedly darker turn. Along the way: Bernard Herrmann’s Psycho, Liszt’s Totentanz, Berlioz’s Dream of a Witches’ Sabbath, music from Chernobyl, Nosferatu, Star Wars, and The Nightmare Before Christmas—culminating in the full-throated force of O Fortuna.