About the Concert

In One Thousand and One Nights, the Sultana Scheherazade nightly diverts her husband with cliffhanger tales of the sea, shipwrecks, princes, and princesses to save her life. Rimsky-Korsakov’s alluring showpiece whisks you off to that exotic world with music that’s languid and sensuous, shimmering and romantic, stormy and terrifying!

Debussy’s Nocturnes depict clouds floating across the skies and boisterous village festivals punctuated by trumpets and drums. Reena Esmail’s musical roots let her look West and East as her composition about sisterhood soars to ecstatic heights, blending Hindustani and Western classical musical traditions.

Program

Debussy Nocturnes (Clouds & Festivals) (14 minutes)

Reena Esmail Meri Sakhi Ki Avaaz (My Sister’s Voice) (26 minutes)

Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade (42 minutes)

This performance includes a 20-minute intermission.

Olive W. Kettering Endowed Concert

Featured Artists

Neal Gittleman, conductor

Saili Oak, Hindustani soprano

Sarah Tucker, operatic soprano

Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra

Take Note – Live at 6:30 in the Schuster!

Artistic Director and Conductor Neal Gittleman presents his Take Note Talk live from the stage in the Schuster Center, from 6:30-7 pm. Learn about the featured works on this evening’s program before Neal gets to the downbeat!

Take Note is generously sponsored by the Dayton Philharmonic Volunteer Association.

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