Colorado Symphony Releases Album Based on Poe’s “The Raven”

Before William Hill wrote a note of The Raven, a tone poem for orchestra and chorus based on Edgar Allan Poe’s poem of the same that will be released on February 2, the principal timpanist for the Colorado Symphony spent months reading the poem out loud and studying everything he could find.

Mary Lambert on Infiltrating Pop Music

Before Mary Lambert’s popular song “Same Love,” with Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, took off in 2013, the singer-songwriter was working three restaurant jobs, performing spoken word and singing around Seattle.