Raven

Raven is a popular, quickly fleeting seemingly continuous strand of disparate and connective scalar fragments and highly technical, circuitously florid streams of notes that fly across the full extent of the piano’s register like a black raven in the badlands of the dry desert land. The idea for the piece was written to fulfill the desire to create something in conjunction with the macabre and Halloween. Because The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe has been frequently set to music for orchestra and singer/narrator, the idea for a short piano solo that was advanced and impressive felt appropriately suitable.