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Fearfully Composed: Fearless — Friday

This week, let's take a close look at music inspired by things that are spooky, creepy, and go bump in the night.

Hear today's full episode by clicking "Listen" above or find "Intermezzo" from your favorite podcast app.

Welcome to Intermezzo from Interlochen Public Radio, where we take a few minutes to bounce some ideas around about classical music.

Christy L’Esperance is cohosting this week with young listeners from far and wide, many of which are from this past summer’s Interlochen Arts Discovery Day Camp.

Happy Halloween! Hopefully this week of Intermezzo helped you feel full of courage and ready to laugh in the face of clowns, scary houses, and spooks of all kinds. Or maybe you’ve been fearless all along, like Axl and Gavin, and you've just listened for the cool music.

While it’s completely normal — and part of our evolved survival skills, to have healthy fears, they don’t have to get in the way of having fun and enjoying life. Sometimes, it just takes closer look to make something scary turn into something...interesting.

Aaron Copland - "Fanfare for the Common Man"

This week's Mystery Melody

Congratulations to this week's Golden Ears who guessed the Mystery Melody correctly! We heard from Betsey Ingraham, Johanna, Paloma, Jimmy and his son Julian from Gaylord and Tim from Traverse City. Listen for the song title revealed at the end of today's podcast episode.

Christy L'Esperance is Classical IPR's morning host and producer.