Salute to Walpurgisnacht

 Welcome to this year's MUSICAL MONTH OF MAY!

To celebrate April 30, Walpurgisnacht, our first comp for this month is a conglomeration of the creepy and venerable Dies Irae theme.

The Screaming Skull (Ernest Gold) - 1958 

01 - Main Title   (1:06)

Demolition Man (Elliot Goldenthal) - 1993  

02 - Dies Irae  (1:53)

Salem's Lot (Harry Sukman) - 1979  

03 - Ximico, Guatemala  (0:25)

04 - We Must Keep Going and Main Titles  (2:10)

05 - The Marsden House and Straker  (1:01)

06 - Ben at the Window  (0:20)

07 - Glick Funeral Begins  (0:23)

08 - Open the Window, Mark  (3:06)

09 - End Credits  (0:52)

The Shining (Wendy Carlos) - 1980 

10 - Dark Winds and Rusties  (1:48)

11 - Paraphrase for 'Cello  (3:23)

12 - A Ghost Piano  (1:58)

13 - Paraphrase for Brass  (1:34)

14 - Day of Wrath  (1:04)

15 - Title Music Dies Irae  (3:42)

16 - Dies Irae (The Shining Theme)  (3:29)

17 - Title Music “Dies”  (3:49)

Metropolis (Gottfried Huppertz) - 1927   

18 - Death Descends Upon the City  (1:04)

19 - In the Cathedral  (2:40)

The Strange Vice of Mrs Wardh (Nora Orlandi) - 1971 

20 - Dies Irae 2  (2:12)

A Clockwork Orange (Wendy Carlos) - 1971

21 - Title Music  (2:19)

The Car (Leonard Rosenman) - 1977  

22 - Main Title  (2:25)

23 - Apparition  (0:35)

24 - Apparition Revised 1-2-3  (1:17)

25 - End Credits  (1:42)

Jason and the Argonauts (Bernard Herrmann) - 1963  

26 - Hydra's Teeth  (0:41)

It's a Wonderful Life (Dimitri Tiomkin) - 1946 

27 - Pottersville Cemetery /Wrong Ma Bailey /Wrong Mary Hatch / The Prayer  (5:49)

Escalation (Ennio Morricone) - 1968 

28 - Dies Irae Psichedelico  (1:57)

The Mephisto Waltz (Jerry Goldsmith) - 1971 

29 - Main Title  (2:27)

30 - The Funeral  (3:26)

31 - Part of the Bargain  (3:41)

32 - Roxanne's Demise  (1:37)

33 - End Title  (3:46)

The Return of Dracula (Gerald Fried) - 1958

34 - Dracula Fugue / Main Title  (2:29)

35 - Dracula Pad  (2:08)

36 - The End  (4:09)

Also included is an insert of notes.  

MA-177 - Screens of Doom 

Hope you're suitably creeped out, but not too much to come back Monday!

 

Out with a BLITZ!

I really enjoy the books of Daniel O'Malley, about YET ANOTHER shadow history we didn't know about until now.

The Rook and Stiletto were the first two books, which I gobbled soon upon discovery.  Blitz, from 2022, followed into my brain's voracious appetite.  But ... wow ... what a challenge to read!

Here's a shot of the library copy I read.

Take a gander at a view of the bottom edge of the closed book.  Hmmm ... interesting, huh?

Look what came after page 440!

What I had to do was flip ahead to page 473, turn the book upside down, and read the upside-down pages 441-472.  Then when I finished the upside-down section, it was back to forward reading.

The funny patterns visible in the first photo's bottom view are explained when you see the pages which look a little nibbled-on.

The entire book is there, just rearranged a bit.  I'm sure this whole thing would be viewed as accidental, but I LOVE this sort of happenstance, don't you?

And with this post we wind up this year's edition of APRIL FOOLISHNESS. But never fear! We'll see you right back here on Thursday for the commencement of this year's MUSICAL MONTH OF MAY, with a new comp every Monday and Thursday!