IN THE SHADOWS OF NIGHT – SYMPHONIC HALLOWEEN

Monsters, witches and the living dead – this chilling array of figures from Gothic horror became a major sales draw in 19th-century bookstores throughout the Western world. Just as the reading public thirsted for the macabre tales of Mary Shelley, Edgar Allan Poe and Bram Stoker, composers’ collective consciousness also began to produce horror stories in musical form.

And what terrifying masterpieces emerged from it! The Sorcerer’s Apprentice tells how a botched spell sets off a fateful chain reaction. Danse macabre, meanwhile, sees the skeletons in the graveyard dance at the stroke of midnight. The Isle of the Dead summons you on a final journey beyond the dark seas. Bernard Herrmann pulls on the darkest strings of the imagination with the razor-sharp slashes of the Psycho score. These and other spine-chilling classics from history now rise from their graves in the spirit of Halloween. Join us if you dare…