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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsIn honor of "Devil's Night" my all time favorite Halloween season video - The Skeleton Dance
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(9,993 posts)bluestarone
(16,940 posts)TY Nice to see it again!
Bayard
(22,073 posts)Grinning like a skeleton the whole way through.
rurallib
(62,415 posts)A couple years ago I was trying to learn a bit about classical music and encountered Camille Saint-Saens "Dance Macabre."
Then I found this cartoon from 1980s PBS of that work. The blurb on YouTube says:
This originally aired on PBS in the 1980s featuring a poorly made up vampire host to introduce and discuss.
It was also shown to me when I was in elementary school. One of the best short length Halloween animations ever created. Terrific illustrations.
About the piece: Danse macabre, by French composer Camille Saint-Saëns, was an art song for voice and piano (first performed in 1872) with a French text by the poet Henri Cazalis which is based in an old French superstition. Two years later, the composer expanded and reworked the piece into a tone poem for orchestra, replacing the vocal line with a solo violin. The rest, they say, is history.
Siwsan
(26,262 posts)Thanks!