This Sunday I’m playing one of my absolute favorite pieces, Scheherazade, with the Elkhart County Symphony!
This pieces hits my two sweet spots, a great story and great musical word painting! Camels galloping, Ships splashing, Sultan’s shouting…
Rimsky Korsakov composed this epic symphonic piece to dramatise the arabic myth of One Thousand and One Nights. In the original book, a brave woman named Scherazade keeps her neck by telling the angry sultan a thousand and one stories. Each night, she would get to the most tense part of the story and the sultan would keep her alive to hear how it would end!
Korsakov dramatises several of these stories, introduced by the sweet tongued Scheherazade and stormy Sultan. And he gives the voice of Scheherazade to the first violin and the HARP.
Hear a sample of my practice on instagram or come here the full concert with the Elkhart County Symphony!
