Sun 10/30 @ 2PM
Tonight the Cleveland Orchestra sheds its black dresses and elegant suits, offering a rare opportunity to see these world-class musicians dressed in costumes as silly and colorful as those some of the audience will be sporting at the Halloween Spooktacular at Severance Hall.
There’ll be a bunch of expertly played “spooky” music of course: classical pieces associated with ghosts and the supernatural: Richard Wagner’s Ride of the Valkyries,” popularized by the 1979 film Apocalypse Now; Paul Dukas’ “The Sorceror’s Apprentice,” injected into popular culture by the 1940 Disney film, Fantasia; music from the Harry Potter films and Camille Saint-Saëns 1874 orchestral tone poem Danse Macabre based on a French legend that has skeletons emerging from the graveyard for a Halloween dance party.
Be sure to wear that costume if you want to take part in the annual musicians and audience costume contest.
Go here for tickets.
clevelandorchestra/halloween-spooktacular/