I think the stairs are still there? By the university. I think a gas station by it but that might have been years ago?
A good add. Lots of "classical" music could be added to the set-list, even if just the highlights. Good stuff. Some Mussorgsky, Mozart, "Electra," Bach, O Fortuna (Carmina Burana) especially, for @K_Dubb
Devilish Norksie Fiddle tunes
Haha I think hardingfele is a lot like bagpipes: if they're in your dna, they're enchanting, but they inspire fear and loathing in the rest. Though
Danse macabre, that other Halloween classic, starts out sounding pretty hardangerish. Technically we have to disqualify
Night on Bald Mountain as it was written for St. John's Eve. Sad, because for my money it's the scariest of them all.
It's remarkable how much the Halloween sound owes to those two pieces, even now. There were a number of compositions illustrating Goethe's poem on Walpurgisnight about a witches' sabbath on April 30, but I don't know them, and we'd have to throw them out anyway for calendar reasons.
O Fortuna is just about fortune/fate, so we'd have to let in Beethoven's fifth and Tchaikovsky's fourth on the same grounds, as well as the latter's
Fatum (he was obsessed), and it gets a little silly.
