A Thousand and One Nights. Scheherazade figures out a way to avoid being killed (like all those who came before her): tell a fresh story every night, for 1,001 nights....
After a day of parades, grilling and more, relax with a program featuring recorded performances conducted by Sir Charles Mackerras. Then go out and watch Fireworks!
Falla's "Nights..." is on closer examination, a piano concerto....
From Malipiero to Dallapiccola, you will hear all the greatest from the turn of the century.
Conductors put together 'programs' that have a sometimes apparent, sometimes not theme. Tonight's is "Program Music", music without words that has a title and attempts to convey a musical description of something...like "The Sea" or "Fate".
