Sun, 02 Nov
|The Piano
Eek! Spooky Music fo Halloweeners.
A Risingholme Orchestra concert - Christchurch
Time & Location
02 Nov 2025, 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
The Piano, 156 Armagh Street, Christchurch Central City, Christchurch 8011, New Zealand
About the Concert
Risingholme Orchestra invites you to our concert based on music evoking supernatural subjects, starting with Heinrich Marschner’s “Overture” to his opera Der Vampyr.
A blast from the past follows with the death-throes of the lead vampire in Stiff Luck for the Undertaker – a comic operetta with music by Philip Norman, written in 1974.
Camille Saint-Saëns’s symphonic poem Danse Macabre ups the ante in the ghoul stakes as skeletons perform frenzied dances, egged on by the Devil’s solo violin.
The Complete Harry Potter comprises a medley of music themes compiled from the phenomenally popular series of eight fantasy films which appeared between 2001 and 2011.
The second half of the concert opens with “Time Warp” from the cult classic The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Some 100 years earlier Gustav Mahler was putting the finishing touches to his epic Symphony No. 1 (Titan); and today we play an excerpt from the 3rd movement.
Bernard Herrmann’s three-movement Vertigo Suite from Alfred Hitchcock’s film of…