New York Philharmonic

1 October 2012

Glenn’s Favorite

“I have long known and admired Glenn Dicterow, and it has always been a dream of mine to perform it with him. … Years ago he taught my sister Jenny, who now is herself a concertmaster, to play these solos, and it made a big impression on me when he said that of all the featured violin lines in the repertoire, Scheherazade is his favorite.”

Alan Gilbert was eager to conduct Rimsky-Korsakov’s musical tale of 1,001 nights, starring the Philharmonic’s Concertmaster as the bewitching spinner of stories. There’s one more chance tomorrow evening to catch the work of which the Music Director said, “have still always thought of it as a piece that Glenn Dicterow plays.”