If you’ve been thinking Halloween is just about costumes and candy corn, stop for a moment and reflect.

It’s about death.

The year is winding down and turning colder. Churches commemorate All Saints Day, and the evening before it, which used to be called All Hallows Eve. Latino culture remembers departed loved ones during Dia de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead. And the ancient Celts believed “the veil between life and death” was thinnest at the end of harvest time.

In honor of the season, the Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic will light more than 500 candles for a 7 p.m. Oct. 23 concert at St. Stephen’s Church in Wilkes-Barre, where it will present Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Requiem, music for a funeral Mass that the gifted composer left unfinished when he died in 1791.

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