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4 Classical Music Pieces That Might Give You A Fright This Halloween

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A Halloween scene can be viewed outside of a Brooklyn home on Halloween night on Oct. 31, 2015. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
A Halloween scene can be viewed outside of a Brooklyn home on Halloween night on Oct. 31, 2015. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Classical music columnist Fran Hoepfner (@franhoepfner) joins Here & Now's Robin Young to talk about four famous pieces that might scare the daylights out of you this Halloween.

Music From The Segment

"Black Crow Knows," from "Drew’s Famous 57 Haunted House Horrors"

"Danse Macabre," by Camille Saint Saens, played by the National Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Leopold Stokowski

"Symphonie Fantastique," by Hector Berlioz, played by the Orchestre National de France, conducted by Leonard Bernstein

"The Sorcerer's Apprentice," by Paul Dukas, played by the Berlin Philharmonic, conducted by James Levine

"Night on Bald Mountain," by Modest Mussorgsky, played by the Philadelphia Orchestra, conducted by Leopold Stokowski

This segment aired on October 31, 2017.

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