Halloween 2009, Part 2!--Whittemore and Lowe, Jill Whitney, Lee Hartsfeld

A nice space motif, and not a space-related track to be heard today. Ah, but wait.

Meanwhile, if only I could remember if the spaceman on the left went with a Buck Rogers toy series or a Flash Gordon set. Or neither. I have a bunch of these, including a wonderful robot--all Fifties plastic. Twenty minutes of Google searching hasn't helped, though I suspect Buck Rogers. The robot in the middle is vintage Rite Aid.

But today, it's all about Dracula, Chopin, Grieg, and a friendly ghost. A ghost friend, anyway. My two pieces--including Dracula's Doorbell--are examples of what can be done, mad-composer-wise, to a Casio CTK-551 organ and piano patch with echo, reverb, filtering, track overlaying, and other sound mutations. Dracula's is definitely a doorbell you want to press and then run. Then again, once you're on the doorstep of Drac's castle, where is there to run to? You can't run back to the coach--it's gone. And the road leading to the castle can't be any safer than inside the castle--and it's raining, to boot. Wolves are howling. Bats are swooping. You're screwed. Sorry about that.

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SLAYLIST

MARCH FUNEBRE (Chopin)--Whittemore and Lowe, duo-pianists, 1958. IN THE HALL OF THE MOUNTAIN KING (Grieg)--Same. POKER NIGHT IN DRACULA'S CASTLE (Hartsfeld)--Lee Hartsfeld, Casio CTK-551, 2009. DRACULA'S DOORBELL (Hartsfeld)--Same. MY FRIEND THE GHOST--Jill Whitney, 1954.

Lee