29 Mar 2015
Scheherazade.2: Violin, cimbalom and female empowerment star in John Adams’ new work
By Rebecca Lentjes [Bachtrack, 28 March 2015]
John Adams has been known to draw inspiration from American writers—Walt Whitman, E. Annie Proulx—for his works, but his most recent composition, Scheherazade.2, is presented as a musical sequel of sorts to the sprawling Middle Eastern collection One Thousand and One Nights. Mr Adams explained at the piece’s world première on Thursday…