Scheherazade: Magic and Myth

Item details

Date

Saturday, Mar 14, 2026 7:30PM

Name

Scheherazade - Magic and Myth

Description

📍 This concert takes place at Powell Hall
🕒 1 hour, 45 minutes (including intermission)

Anna Sułkowska-Migoń, conductor (SLSO debut)
Leila Josefowicz, violin

Grażyna Bacewicz Overture (First SLSO performances)
Alban Berg Violin Concerto
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade

Experience stunning performances and sensational stories featuring remarkable women. Anna Sułkowska-Migoń—known in the orchestra world for her sensibility to nuance and detail—opens her SLSO debut with a dynamic overture by fellow Polish musician, Grażyna Bacewicz. Leila Josefowicz displays her formidable talent in Berg’s soul-searching Violin Concerto, written in remembrance of a lost friend. And the orchestra conjures the magic of Scheherazade’s 1,001 tales in Rimsky-Korsakov’s beloved interpretation of the centuries-old Middle Eastern legend.

A few things to know:

• Leila Josefowicz was just 17 years old when she was awarded an Avery Fisher Career Grant. She has since received four Grammy nominations and was awarded the prestigious Avery Fisher Prize and MacArthur Fellowship awards.
• “To the Memory of an Angel” is inscribed on the first page of Alban Berg’s Violin Concerto, an elegy for 18-year-old Manon Gropius, the daughter of Berg’s close friends and the catalyst for his plaintive concerto.
• Anna Sułkowska-Migoń ventured into the world of orchestral conducting after feeling frustration that she could not fully express herself through just one single instrument (in her case, the viola). Her father, also a conductor, encouraged her to step in front of an ensemble to see if that allowed her more creative flexibility. His encouragement proved pivotal, launching her career as a conductor.

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