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Spooky Songs

October 31, 2026, 4:00 pm

Detail of watercolor copy of "Danse Macabre of Basel" showing 10 skeletons paired with 10 mortals.

Detail of "Danse Macabre of Basel" by Johann Rudolf Feyerabend (Vassil, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons)

A survey of spooky songs for Halloween, including Schubert’s Der Doppelgänger, Saint-Saëns’s Danse macabre, and the Wolseley Charles’s The Green-Eyed Dragon.

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Meet the Host

Oliver Camacho joined the announcer team in February of 2019. He is the co-host and creative consultant of Opera Box Score and co-host of OperaNow! Podcast. A proud graduate of Chicago’s Lane Technical High School, where he was mentored by George Rico, Oliver went on to study music at Northwestern University, and historically informed performance practice at the Amherst Early Music Festival and Early Music Vancouver. His musical passions are opera, art song, choral music, Early Music, and discovering new composers as well as those who have been previously marginalized or disenfranchised. In January of 2021, Oliver began hosting Listening to Singers, and in October of the same year, he was named WFMT’s Music Director.

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