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Puppets endowed with life, mysterious islands of death, and other spooky tales

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We killed it at our Halloween Spooktacular concert a few weeks ago!  But now that it's finally Halloween, it's time for a very mysteriously eerie Classics concert featuring some true heavy hitters. LPO Horns rocking it as the Four Seasons There are an endless amount of exciting second horn parts in the orchestral repertoire.  Beethoven always has me ready for exciting duets and low solos, Brahms has me leaping into the depths of the lower tessitura, and Mahler has every horn soaring on epic melodic lines.  Recently though, I've discovered just how exciting a composer who wrote predominantly Ballet music can be.  Stravinsky is intensely exciting because he keeps your on your toes.  I don't think I know another composer who wrote with as much variety in what he asks for technically.  We have beautiful, flowing melodies, the shortest and sharpest of accents, thick, gentle, shadowy low notes, loud, high, brash interjections, not to mention plenty of mix...