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Sheherazade
Rimsky-Korsakov’s spin on One Thousand & One Nights
About the Concert

FRI MAR 28, 2025, 7:30 PM
SAT MAR 29, 2025, 7:30 PM
Music Hall

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Program

Keitaro Harada, conductor
Anne Akiko Meyers, violin

Yuzo TOYAMA (1931–2023)
Rhapsody for Orchestra

Arturo MÁRQUEZ (b. 1950)
Fandango
Folia Tropical
Plegaria (Chacona)
Fandanguito

INTERMISSION 

Nikolai RIMSKY-KORSAKOV (1844–1908)
Sheherazade, Op. 35
The Sea and Sinbad's Ship
The Tale of Prince Kalendar
The Young Prince and the Princess
The Festival at Bagdad; The Sea; The Ship Goes to Pieces on a Rock

These performances are approximately 102 minutes long, including intermission.


The CSO is grateful to CSO Season Sponsor Western & Southern Financial Group. 

The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra is grateful for the support of the Louise Dieterle Nippert Musical Arts Fund of the Greenacres Foundation and the Nina Browne Parker Trust, and for the thousands of people who give generously to the ArtsWave Community Campaign, the region’s primary source for arts funding. This project was supported in part by the Ohio Arts Council, which receives support from the State of Ohio and the National Endowment for the Arts

Pre-Concert Talks are made possible by an endowed gift from Melody Sawyer Richardson.

WGUC is the Media Partner for these concerts.

The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra in-orchestra Steinway piano is made possible in part by the Jacob G. Schmidlapp Trust.

Listen to selections from this program on 90.9 WGUC May 18, 2025 at 8 pm, followed by 30 days of streaming at cincinnatisymphony.org/replay.

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