5 on Friday -- Set 247 -- The Halloween Edition

Spinning Friday tunes since 2010...

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"A gypsy fire is on the hearth

Sign of the carnival of mirth

Through the dun fields and from the glade

Flash merry folk in masquerade

For this is Halloween!"

-- Author Unknown

Happy Haunting, Everyone!

1 - The Rite of Spring opening movements -- San Francisco Symphony, directed by Michael Tilson Thomas -- composed by Igor Stravinsky

The spooky theme starts at the 3:30 mark.

2 - Cinderella's Waltz from the ballet Cinderella -- composed by Sergei Prokofiev

3 - Olim lacus colueram (Once in Lakes I Made My Home) from Carmina Burana -- composed by Carl Orff

4 - Don Giovanni, a cenar teco m'invitasti (Don Giovanni, you have invited me to dinner)  -- Carlos Alvarez as Don Giovanni and Ildebrando D'Arcangelo as the Commendatore (Knight Commander) -- composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

5 - Danse Macabre -- composed by Camille Saint-Saens