But when Charles Camille Saints Saens wrote this amazing musical piece, he did not intend for people to be scared. This music amazes me at how spooky and scary it can be yet it has a joyfulness about it. According to legend, “Death” appears at midnight every year on Halloween. Death (played in the song by the violin) calls forth the dead from their graves to dance their dance of death for him while he plays his fiddle. His skeletons dance for him until the rooster crows at dawn, when they must return to their graves until the next year. If you close your eyes and listen, you’ll be able to see the story in the music.  I’m going to play this piece for my kids on Monday.  For me, Halloween is a whole weekend kinda thing! 🙂  I hope you enjoy it as another treat from yours, ever so truly.

I cannot get the link I want on here. Damn artists won’t share it.  Ugh!

Check out Youtube.  Type in Midnight dance.  Danse macabre.  You MUST type both words exactly as spelled.  French is different than English.  The one produced by Raw Nerve Films.  It’s funded by the Irish film board, of course.  They produce such amazing stuff.