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Music can scare, spook, and thrill! Need inspiration for your frightful repertoire? Read on to learn which major symphony orchestras are presenting Halloween concerts and for suggested scary music.

1. Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
2. Boise Philharmonic
3. Chicago Symphony Orchestra
4. Kansas City Symphony
5. Los Angeles Philharmonic
6. Austin Symphony Orchestra
7. Colorado Symphony Orchestra
8. Utah Symphony
9. Toledo Symphony
10. Dallas Symphony Orchestra

Suggested Scary Classical Music Repertoire List:

· Bach - Toccata and Fugue in d minor, BWV 565
· Grieg - In the Hall of the Mountain King
· Brahms - Piano Quintet in g minor, Op. 25
· Bartok - Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta (mvmt. 3, adagio)
· Mozart - Requiem "Dies Irae"
· Orff - Carmina Burana, O Fortuna
· Ives - Robert Browning Overture
· Brahms - Hungarian Dance No. 5 in g minor
· Webern - Variations Op. 27 - Ruhig fliessend
· Mussorgsky - A Night on Bald Mountain
· George Crumb - Vox balaenae
· Bela Bartok - Out of Doors, BB 89: No. 3 Musette
· Modest Mussorgsky - The Hut on Fowl's Legs (Baba-Yaba)
· Dmitry Shostakovich Symphony No. 10, mvmt. 2
· Dmitry Shostakovich Symphony No. 2, mvmt. 2
· Camille Saint-Saëns - Dance Macabre
· Mark-Anthony Turnage - Three Farewlls - All will be Well
· Allan Pettersson's Symphony No. 6
· Krzysztof Penderecki's Symphony No. 1

Top 10 Scary Movie Music List:

1. Friday the 13th – Fred Molin
2. Halloween – John Carpenter
3. Texas Chainsaw Massacre – Steve Jablonsky
4. The Hills Have Eyes – Music by Tomandandy
5. When a Stranger Calls – James Dooly
6. Dark Water – Angelo Badalamenti
7. Bram Stoker’s Dracula – Wojciech Kilar
8. Psycho – Bernard Herrmann
9. The Village – James Newton Howard
10. Lady in the Water – James Newton Howard

Lists were compiled from information found on www.about.com .

-- Nicole “Spooky” Springer, October 27, 2009. © MENC: The National Association for Scary Music Education.