Whetting the appetite for the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s latest offering will require immediate use of the imagination and an innate attraction for the dramatic.

Picture the beat, beat, beat of kettle drums, softly but constantly, in a three-note pattern. The beat eventually leads to the orchestra whispering one word, “Nevermore” over and over again as the drum pattern gets louder. Actor John Astin begins to recite Edgar Alan Poe’s immortal poem, “The Raven” as one section of the orchestra plays over another in eerie, musical accompaniment.

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