In 1929, "The Skeleton Dance" rattled its bones onto movie house screens — or, at least the movie houses that hadn't banned the short animated film. It was the first entry in Disney's Silly Symphony ...

Danse Macabre (translation: Dance of Death) by Camille Saint-Saëns is a tone poem that tells the story of Death making the dead rise from their graves on Halloween and dance to his sinister tune.

Seraphim will open its 2025-2026 season with a concert commemorating the departed. The program connects the hauntingly evocative "Danse macabre" by the French poet Charles Baudelaire to music's own ...