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...terrified heroine, complete with a big, climactic organ swell! Now would the scene have been at all frightening without those cacophonous organ notes? Certainly not. Maybe the Harvard Organ Society didn’t have such dramatic ideas behind their midnight Halloween concert, but nine performers explored the spookier side of the instrument late Tuesday evening.The Society put on the show for a modest crowd, some costumed, in Memorial Church. The church lights were dimmed and a screen erected on the altar so the audience could see the performers at work. Edward Jones, the Gund University organist and choirmaster...
...buycostumes is correct, these students may find Election Day spookier than Halloween...
Death can do quite a number on a pop song. Pop lyrics are usually just convenient rhymes, but the demise of their author inspires many listeners to riffle through the back catalog in search of foreshadowing--the spookier the better. For instance, when Jeff Buckley, who walked into the Mississippi River one evening and never walked out, sang, "This is our last goodbye," he must have known he had a watery grave in his future, right? And when Kurt Cobain growled, "I swear that I don't have a gun," he was just being gruesomely ironic...
...slob ("You make a pretty picture," the catty narrator says, "with your rumpled skirt, your spotted sweater and your hair in a tizzy"). John, in Narcotics: Pit of Despair, takes that first fatal drag on a joint and instantly becomes a heroin addict. What could be spookier? A Date with Your Family, in which five pod people purporting to be a suburban family sit down to dinner. "Pleasant, unemotional conversation," we are told, "helps digestion." Hey, what is this? Stalin's Russia...
...hate Kennedy, CIA renegades bent on a better Bay of Pigs invasion and Mafia overlords whose motives are as shadowy as their methods. As history, the explanations are no more satisfying than any others. As literature, the portrait of Oswald's strange world -- especially his bizarre mother -- is richer, spookier and eerily funnier than anything else on the subject...