To open this program, the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra USA welcomes Spanish harpist Cristina Montes Mateo. She is featured in a challenging 20th-century piece, the “Concerto Capriccio” by the Catalan ...

With the sensuous and seductive melodies of Rimsky-Korakov’s Scheherazade, we dedicate this concert to the violin. Concertmaster Geoffrey Trabichoff will enchant us as the violin voice of Scheherazade ...

A staple of the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s Hollywood Bowl repertory for many decades, Rimsky-Korsakov’s familiar “Scheherazade” has often seemed a tired exercise in orchestral display and conductorial ...

Bedtime stories took on a new meaning for Scheherazade. Her husband, the Sultan, had the nasty habit of marrying a woman at night and killing her in the morning. So Scheherazade thought up a plan.

Strauss: Don Quixote (Pittsburgh Symphony, Fritz Reiner conducting, with Gregor Piatigorsky, cellist; Columbia; 10 sides). Cellist Piatigorsky brilliantly performs what many regard as Strauss’s finest ...

The composer's early life as a sailor informed his evocative music for Sinbad and other tales from the Arabian Nights. I want to tell you a story…but there’s more to this tale than words! It’s a story ...

The Canada-based Les Arrivants Trio performs with the Glacier Symphony Feb. 22 and 23 at the Wachholz College Center in Kalispell. (Courtesy photo) The Glacier Symphony presents “Scheherazade” ...