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In honor of "Devil's Night" my all time favorite Halloween season video - The Skeleton Dance (Original Post) Siwsan Oct 2019 OP
Thanks! Never saw it before! 50 Shades Of Blue Oct 2019 #1
This is a classic! bluestarone Oct 2019 #2
Love this stuff! Bayard Oct 2019 #3
Here is one you might enjoy rurallib Oct 2019 #4
Very 'ghoul'! Siwsan Oct 2019 #5
So cute! LeftInTX Oct 2019 #6
I found this one. Unique and well done: LeftInTX Oct 2019 #7
Still scares me! Laffy Kat Oct 2019 #8

rurallib

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4. Here is one you might enjoy
Wed Oct 30, 2019, 09:11 PM
Oct 2019

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.




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