Spooky Classical Music
My big time-waster of the last couple of days was working on a Squidoo Lens* on the subject "Spooky Classical Music for Halloween". This all came about one night when we were having dinner with our friend George, whose musical tastes range from eclectic to odd.
He was thinking about music from his collection that might be suitable for playing from darkened houses on Halloween. Isaac and I were seized by the spirit (as it were) and joined in, quickly making up a longish list of our own that included classical titles that we felt would help create a suitable ambiance.
With a nod to the greatest of all phantom-of-the-opera titles, the "Toccata & Fugue in d minor" of Bach, there are a good number of organ titles, but we also came up with works we favored in other genres, as well. There was nothing from before the Baroque, but all other time periods got coverage.
Another excellent time waster turned out to be looking through lots of YouTube videos related to the titles we chose, looking for some that were interesting for one reason or another, and I turned up some performances that I found quite interesting. But, I warn you that checking out those links will probably be a time waster for my four regular readers as well.
Now, back to work for me!
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*If you don't know what it is, you'll find out soon enough I expect by clicking the link.