Thriller-Free Zone 2010

[acroyear]

Is starting in film-score land...

• 2 from Close Encounters (John Williams)
  
• 1 from Batman Begins (Zimmer-Howard)
  
• the Mischief Managed medley from Harry Potter 3 (John Williams)
  
• 3 from Pirates of the Caribbean 3 (Hans Zimmer)
  
• opening titles from the original Planet of the Apes (Jerry Goldsmith)
• 2 from The Black Hole (John Barry)
• Alice's theme from the Tim Burton film (Danny Elfman)

and those two segue us into a Disney batch...

• Grim Grinning Ghosts
• The Bells of Notre Dame

at this point, we finally got our first kids...(and they weren't even all that dressed up...)

• Poor Unfortunate Souls (Little Mermaid)
  
• This is Halloween & What's This (Nightmare Before Christmas)
• Hephalumps and Woozles! (Winnie The Pooh)

now the classical begins...

• Berlioz's Symphonie Fantasique mvt 5 (includes Dies Irae) (Bernstein, NYPO)
• Mars and Saturn from Holst's Planets (Bernstein, NYPO)
• Mussorgsky's Night on Bald Mountain (Bernstein, NYPO)
• Stravinsky's Symphony of Winds (Rattle, BPO)
• Tocatta & Fugue and Sorcerer's Apprentice from Fantasia (1982 version - sounds clearer for my needs here)
• 2 from Saint-Saens - Danse Bachanal and Danse Macabre (Eugene Ormandy)
• O Fortuna (well, why not?) - Orff (Previn, LSO)
• Prokofiev - Alexander Nevsky Cantata (Previn)

and to close...

• Mahler Symphony 7 (Michael Tilson Thomas, SFO)
• works by Takemitsu
  

2010-10-31 Halloween

and someday there's gonna be a rant on how many kids were *driven* from house to house instead of walking...