About This Song
About "Danse Macabre, Op. 40" by Eugene Ormandy
Ormandy conjures Saint-Saëns' skeleton waltz with a wink and a shiver. Xylophone bones clatter through the graveyard, but the real tension is the grin beneath the terror—death as a danseur, elegant and mocking. The music pirouettes on the edge of a grave.