Beer.  Size matters.  Three and a half minutes.  These things are surprisingly interrelated, as I found out recently, but not in the way you might be thinking.  This is a music blog!  So if you can keep your mind out…

What comes to mind when you think of Halloween music?   Michael Jackson’s Thriller?  The Addams Family theme song?  The 1962 hit single Monster Mash?  How about something from The Nightmare Before Christmas?  All good stuff, but the orchestral composers of…