SYMPHONIC SPOOKTACULAR “Haunting Harmonies” October 26 and 27, 2024

Presented by Symphony San Jose

Just in time for Halloween: Symphonic Spooktacular with Symphony San Jose

Just in time for Halloween, Symphony San Jose and Symphony San Jose Chorale conjure up some of classical music’s scariest hits.

Symphonic Spooktacular features “Haunting Harmonies” with music including J.S. Bach’s Toccata & Fugue, Saint-Saëns Danse Macabre, Mussorgsky’s Night on Bald Mountain, Bernard Herrmann’s Psycho Suite, and John Williams’ Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.

It’s the perfect Halloween concert for the entire family. A Costume Contest with Spooktacular prizes will be held for those who feel like dressing up. Don’t feel like dressing up? Come as you are and enjoy the costume parade.

FUN FACTS:

The violin solo in Danse Macabre represents Death playing the fiddle, while the xylophone imitates the sound of rattling bones.

The screeching violins and eerie melodies of the Psycho score have become synonymous with suspense and terror in cinema, influencing countless horror film composers in the years since its release.

Date:
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City: San Jose
Price Range:
$35 to $115

Program Items

J.S. Bach Toccata and Fugue, BWV 565 in D minor
Camille Saint-Saëns Danse Macabre
Modest Mussorgsky Night on Bald Mountain
John Williams Devil’s Dance (from (The Witches of Eastwick”)
Andrew Lloyd Weber Phantom of the Opera
Edvard Grieg In the Hall of the Mountain King
Franz Schubert Die Erlkönig
Bernard Herrman Suite from Psycho
John Williams Double Trouble (from Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban)
Azkaban) John Williams Duel of the Fates (from Star Wars The Phantom Menace)

Performers

Peter Jaffe conductor
Symphony San Jose Chorale

California Theatre

California Theatre

345 South 1st Street
San Jose, CA 95113
United States