Apr 7, 2021
5 min read
The Modern-Day Scheherazade
A musical retelling of a literary classic
Over Mother’s Day weekend in 2015, my family and I had the privilege of seeing John Adams conduct the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra in a work of his own composition, Scheherazade.2. I was especially excited to hear Adams’ re-imagination of the Arabian Nights folktales since I had decided to compare The Thousand and One Nights to Rimsky-Korsakov’s…
