Listen to Alan Chapman's preview on SoundCloud.
The Saturday night performance will broadcast on Classical KUSC on March 10, 2019.
Music director Carl St.Clair conducted the symphony.
Rimsky-Korsakov: “SCHEHERAZADE”
Before playing it in full, Carl gave a little preview of the piece, with snippets from each movement. He also teased the audience with a partial Super Bowl score, "7". :)
Scheherazade is the main character in "The Arabian Nights", or "One Thousand and One Nights". The once-betrayed Sultan, as his revenge to all women, took a new wife every day and killed her at dawn. To stop this, Scheherazade volunteered to become his wife, and told a story every night, leaving the punch line open for the next day. She continues this for 1,001 nights, until the Sultan finally gives up on killing her.
Carl likened this to the Netflix model, which lures the viewers into continuing to watch the next episode. :)
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