The Textures of Eastern Music

It is easy to stereotype music, and culture. It is easy to stereotype them together as well - for instance, to state that all eastern music sounds the same. Often times, it does, to an untrained ear. Many of us on this side of the world…

Rimsky-Korsakov and the Russian Five

Scheherazade (movement 1) Last fall, the Johnson City Symphony Orchestra performed "Scheherazade" by Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov. I played in the 1st violin section of the Symphony at the time. It is a wonderful piece of music, I jokingly nick-named…