Halloween is a great time to explore the most mysterious music ever composed.

Camille Saint-Saens: Danse Macabre — Music about ghosts and spirits coming alive in a graveyard to dance in the moonlight.

LISTEN — Camille Saint-Saens: Danse Macabre

Carl Orff: O Fortuna from Carmina Burana — This piece makes us want to hide. Where is your favorite hiding spot? Do you use it when you play hide-and-seek?

LISTEN — Carl Orff: O Fortuna

Edvard Grieg: Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, “In the Hall of the Mountain King” — This piece may make you feel like running. How fast can you run in place?

LISTEN — Edvard Grieg: Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, “In the Hall of the Mountain King”

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