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78. My music teacher used to play "Danse Macabre" for us every year at Halloween

Fri Jun 28, 2013, 12:16 AM

Jun 2013

It was *always* something I looked forward to. After she played it for Halloween in the 6th grade, I realized that that would be the last year I would be able to have that experience, but I loved that music so much I just had to order it from the local music store. The only recordings that were available at the time were on LPs, so when the music store got "Saint-Saens' Greatest Hits" in stock, I just had to buy it. And after I got that album, I started listening to the other tracks, and found that the final movement of the 3rd Symphony and the Fossils and Finale from "Carnival of the Animals" really drove me wild. "Fossils", in fact, was quite reminiscent of "Danse Macabre".

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