Leonard Slatkin kicked out the scary jams in Baltimore and conducted the BSO in, among other good stuff, his own "The Raven", his musical hommage to the great American poet and generally nuts Edgar Allan Poe composed in 1971 to be narrated by howwor movie legend Vincent Price.
The other night, since Mr. Price's ghost had a prior engagement, another legend, of the TV variety, saved the night: il signor John Astin, unforgotten Gomez Addams & Poe scholar.
Friend of Opera Chic, Tim Smith, was spooked (and unimpressed) but there for the Baltimore Sun readers sake, and our own.
